LECTURES

2010

September 12, Sunday, 2–4:30 pm
LECTURE: The Art & Interiors of Hill-Stead
Anne Higonnet, Professor of the History of Art at Barnard College of Columbia University, and Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts at Yale University, will lecture, respectively, on Alfred Pope's art collection and Theodate Pope Riddle's vision for that collection as a public museum, and the interior design elements of the house during the first decade of occupancy. Their lectures are based on their essays in the museum's new book, Hill-Stead: The Country Place of Theodate Pope Riddle (Princeton Architectural Press, Spring, 2010). Light refreshments will be available during an intermission between the two speakers. $8 members & students, $12 members-to-be.

October 7, Thursday, 7 pm
NINA STANLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE
Spiritualism and Psychical Research: Theodate's Circle
Join Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, science writer and Professor of Science Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a lecture on her book Ghost Hunters: William James and the Scientific Search for Life After Death (The Penguin Press, 2006). Ghost Hunters, named one of the "50 hottest books of summer 2006" in Entertainment Weekly's summer reading preview edition, parallels Theodate Pope Riddle's interest in spiritualism and psychical research, and profiles many of the personalities she knew and corresponded with during the movement's heyday in the early 1900s. Lecture & reception: $8 members and students, $12 members-to-be.