In observance of Martin Luther King Day at Rider University, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson will speak on the topic of “Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line” on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center (BLC) Theater. 

Dr. Susan T. Fiske, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University and a noted specialist in the areas of discrimination and prejudice reduction, delivered the inaugural Marvin W. Goldstein Prejudice Reduction Lecture on Wednesday, November 7, at 8 p.m. in Rider University’s Bart Luedeke Center Theater.

Kicking off Rider University’s Unity Day activities on October 9, Dr. Melissa Lacewell-Harris, associate professor of political science at Princeton University, shared her analysis of the impact of the black vote on the Democratic presidential primaries and the politics of Hurricane Katrina.

Dr. Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Holocaust scholar, will deliver the Seventh Annual Dorothy Koppelman Memorial Holocaust Lecture on Sunday, May 20 at Rider.

The husband-wife team of Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot, both composers and faculty members at the New England Conservatory, will be the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows at Rider University, Monday-Friday, March 26-30.

U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, the federal prosecutor for the state of New Jersey, will speak on "Restoring Faith in Government: The Fight against Political Corruption" on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater.