Henry Louis Gates Jr. Lectures

Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah delivered the inaugural Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Lecture, "Being DuBois: Lessons in the Management of Identities," on October 16, 2012, at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University. The Gates Lecture, established in 2012 and administered by the Department of African American Studies at Yale, is endowed in the spirit of excellence that Professor Gates (Yale '73) brought to the Yale community, particularly in African American Studies, during his years of undergraduate study and while on the faculty. The Gates Lectureship is made possible through the generous support of Daniel and Joanna S. Rose. To view all the Henry Louis Gates Jr. lectures, follow this link: •HenryLouisGatesJr.Lectures

Acclaimed poet and playwright Wole Soyinka delivered the Henry L. Gates Jr. Lecture, "Slavery Talk: Between Metaphor and Reality," April 9, 2014 at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University. The Henry L. Gates, Jr. Lectures, established in 2012 and administered by the Department of African American Studies at Yale, are endowed in the spirit of excellence that Professor Gates (Yale '73) brought to the Yale community, particularly in African American Studies, during his years of undergraduate study and while on the faculty. The Gates Lectureship is made possible through the generous support of Daniel and Joanna S. Rose. To view all the Henry Louis Gates Jr. lectures, follow this link: •HenryLouisGatesJr.Lectures

Professor Patricia Williams delivered the Henry L. Gates Jr. Lecture, “Anatomy of Short Lives: A Meditation on Repetitions of Regret,” on April 21, 2015, at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University. The Gates Lecture, established in 2012 and administered by the Department of African American Studies at Yale, is endowed in the spirit of excellence that Professor Gates (Yale '73) brought to the Yale community, particularly in African American Studies, during his years of undergraduate study and while on the faculty. The Gates Lectureship is made possible through the generous support of Daniel and Joanna S. Rose. To view all the Henry Louis Gates Jr. lectures, follow this link: •HenryLouisGatesJr.Lectures

Professor Hortense J. Spillers delivered the Henry L. Gates Jr. Lecture, “Shades of Intimacy: What the Eighteenth Century Teaches Us,” on April 27, 2016, at Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, Yale University. The Gates Lecture, established in 2012 and administered by the Department of African American Studies at Yale, is endowed in the spirit of excellence that Professor Gates (Yale '73) brought to the Yale community, particularly in African American Studies, during his years of undergraduate study and while on the faculty. The Gates Lectureship is made possible through the generous support of Daniel and Joanna S. Rose. To view all the Henry Louis Gates Jr. lectures, follow this link: •HenryLouisGatesJr.Lectures

Professor Dorothy E. Roberts delivered the Henry L. Gates Jr., Lecture, “Killing the Black Body: A Twenty-Year Retrospective,” on April 27, 2017, at the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, Yale University. The Gates Lecture, established in 2012 and administered by the Department of African American Studies at Yale, is endowed in the spirit of excellence that Professor Gates (Yale '73) brought to the Yale community, particularly in African American Studies, during his years of undergraduate study and while on the faculty. The Gates Lectureship is made possible through the generous support of Daniel and Joanna S. Rose. To view all the Henry Louis Gates Jr. lectures, follow this link: •HenryLouisGatesJr.Lectures

Professor David A. Scott delivered the sixth annual Henry L. Gates Jr., Lecture, “A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall's Art of Living," on April 26, 2018, at the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, Yale University. David A. Scott is Chair and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. The Gates Lecture, established in 2012 and administered by the Department of African American Studies at Yale, is endowed in the spirit of excellence that Professor Gates ('73) brought to the Yale community, particularly in African American Studies, during his years of undergraduate study and while on the faculty. The Gates Lectureship is made possible through the generous support of Daniel and Joanna S. Rose. To view all the Henry Louis Gates Jr. lectures, follow this link: •HenryLouisGatesJr.Lectures

Hazel V. Carby, the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University, delivered the seventh annual Henry L. Gates Jr., Lecture, “Difficult Times," on April 11, 2019, at the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, Yale University. The Gates Lecture, established in 2012 and administered by the Department of African American Studies at Yale, is endowed in the spirit of excellence that Professor Gates ('73) brought to the Yale community, particularly in African American Studies, during his years of undergraduate study and while on the faculty. The Gates Lectureship is made possible through the generous support of Daniel and Joanna S. Rose.

Yale University African American Studies The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Lecture “Why Afro-Pessimism Fails: Du Bois and the Structure vs. Culture Debate” Lawrence D. Bobo, Dean of Social Sciences and the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. April 23, 2024