Rudin Lecture

The Jack and Lewis Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program was established at Marymount Manhattan College in 2000 through a grant from The Rudin Foundation, Inc. 

Both Jack Rudin and the late Lewis Rudin have been well known throughout New York for the extraordinary contributions they have made to enhance the quality of living and working in New York City, and for their generous support of education, health, the arts and other civic, religious and cultural causes. Marymount Manhattan is honored to be the recipient of this special grant. This lecture builds upon the College’s commitment to academic excellence and its distinctive undergraduate programs in the liberal arts. 

Rudin Lectures

Left: Alice Sheppard Right: Simi Linton October 13, 2021

How is disability represented through the arts?

On October 27 at 6 p.m., prominent disability arts leaders Simi Linton and Alice Sheppard will be joining Marymount Manhattan College’s Rudin Lecture for a discussion on disability in arts and culture. Linton and Sheppard, who are both disabled artists, will cover an array of topics from aesthetics to justice. The virtual event will be moderated by Therí A. Pickens, a renowned scholar in the fields of Blackness and Disability.


Bill T. Jones January 14, 2019
Marymount Manhattan College’s Ferraro Institute for Breakthrough Civic Leadership is pleased to announce its inaugural event: Bill T. Jones on the Arts and Social Justice, in conversation with Lane Harwell of the Ford Foundation on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 on the MMC campus. The Rudin Foundation is also a sponsor of this event.

November 14, 2017
On Wednesday, November 1, Anthony D. Romero visited MMC as the 2017 Jack and Lewis Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar. He delivered an informative lecture, titled, Rights and Liberties in America Today. Students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered in the Theresa Lang Theatre to hear Romero’s influential speech.

Martha Nussbaum 

November 6, 2003

Dava Sobel 

October 9, 2002

Neil Postman

Inaugural Lecture: “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century”
October 4, 2000

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