#  AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates Gives 2022 Robert B. Silvers Lecture 

 





March 10, 2022

 

 

On **Thursday, March 10, 2022**, at the New York Public Library, the 2022 Robert B. Silvers Lecture was presented by [AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr](/people/henry-louis-gates-jr). and Andrew Curran in a two-part lecture in which the two historians discussed the development of the concept of race during the Enlightenment. The lecture focuses on the subject of their new book *[Who Is Black and Why?](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244269)* which was released on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. The recorded lecture is available for viewing on T*he New York Review'*s [website](https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2022/03/14/henry-louis-gates-jr-andrew-s-curran-the-robert-b-silvers-lecture/).

 

 

 



 

 

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