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Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2008. It includes handwritten letter from Kitty [Kathleen] Butler to MR thanking her for presentations made at Cleveland University on 3rd March, 04/03/2008; material relating to MR giving 10th annual University of Albert (UA) Visiting Lectureship in Human Rights, in Edmonton, 2nd April, including correspondence between MR, Mary Baylis [Personal Assistant to MR], Patti Mitrushi, American Program Bureau (APB), Heather Grady, [Managing Director, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative], Scott Jerbi [Senior Advisor to MR], Lisa Oldring, Aspen institute [linked with EGI] and Doug Weir, Director, International Student Services, UA, regarding logistics and address content, with draft text, information pack from Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women, with cover letter from Muriel Stanley Venne, President and Founder, draft and final text of lecture, schedules, background material on human rights issues in Canada, press material on lecture including cuttings, 07/2004-03/04/2008; material relating to MR giving the 8th Annual Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture, at University of Wisconsin, Madison (UWM) on 26th September, including letter of invite from John D Wiley, Chancellor, UWM, programme, email correspondence between MR, Mary Baylis, Heather Grady, and Cynthia Williams, Director of External Relations, Division of International Studies, UWM, regarding logistics, speaking points with notation, background material on Human Rights Initiative at UWM and on Mildred Fish Harnock, and guest list for Chancellor's dinner in honour of MR's visit, 29/11/2007-29/09/2008; material relating to MR's keynote address at and participation in University of Maryland (UM) School of Law's conference "Reflecting on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights", 23/25 October, as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law including correspondence between MR and Karen H Rothenberg, Dean, regarding her invitation to participate, email correspondence between MR, Mary Baylis [Personal Assistant to MR], Paula Monopoli, Marbury Research Professor of Law and Founding Director of Women, Leadership and Equality Program, UM, Marie E Schwartz, Coordinator of the International and Comparative Law and Program, UM, Peter Danchin, Assistant Professor of Law, UM, regarding program and logistics, thank you letter from Danchin with three printed photographs of MR with Peter and others, which had been converted into thank you cards, draft of MR's address with handwritten notes using previous address University of Alberta, in April 2008 as basis, draft conference papers including "The Universal Declaration and Developments in the Enforcement of International Human Rights in Domestic Law", Michael P Van Alstine, "How Far Are We From Achieving the Goals of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights", Arthur Chaskalson, "The Influence of the Universal Declaration as Law", John Dugard, "Who is the 'Human' in Human rights? the Claims of Culture and Religion", Peter Danchin, "Toward a More 'Courageous Politics' at the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR", Kaarina Bennoune, and "The Indian Supreme Court, ESC Rights and the Right to Food", Colin Gonsalves, programme and speaker biographies for symposium and background material on UM's International and Comparative Law Program, 19/05-11/12/2008; material relating to MR giving public lecture "Human Rights Challenges in the Next Decade", at Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton on 27th October, including correspondence between MR, Mary Baylis, Lakhdar Brahimi, Karen Cuozzo, and Peter Goddard IAS, regarding logistics, programming and address content, draft press release, 04/02-27/10/2008; correspondence relating to MR giving lunch time event, 25 November, at Columbia Law School, 16/06-23/11/2008.

File also includes DVD and poster of film "The Response", created in collaboration with University of Maryland School of Law "based on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Military Tribunals", with cover card from Karen Rothenberg.

Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2009. It includes material relating to the Hilda and Robert Tweedy Inaugural lecture given by MR, "Peace, Gender and Human Rights", at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) on 6th February, including programme, correspondence between MR, Mary Baylis [Personal Assistant to MR], Jean Tweedy Walker (daughter of Hilda Tweedy), Mary Apied, President, Trinity Foundation, and Maryann Valiulis, TCD, briefing notes, draft address and quotes from Hilda Tweedy, 22/10/2008-13/02/2009; large colour A4 photograph of MR with lady in long formal blue dress, with sticker on back labelled "Columbia Global Centres Amman, Columbia University Middle East Research Center, and "March 2009" in pencil; material relating to lecture "Global Health and Human rights", given by MR as part of Miller Distinguished Lecture Series at University of California, Berkeley on 29th April, including flyer, poster, draft address, Climate Justice roundtable participant profiles and email from Michell Bologna with bio of G William Miller, 31/03-29/04/2009.

Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2010. It includes material relating to lecture "A Woman Leading the World", given by MR as part of Penn State Altoona [Pennsylvania State University, Altoona] 2009-2010 Distinguished Speaker Series, 1st April, including poster, schedule, press print outs and handwritten notes, 18/03-01/04/2010; text of address "Human Rights Strategies in the 21st Century", given by MR at Stanford University for Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts, on 12th April, with passages highlighted in pink and orange highlighter pens; speaking notes for video message for Gala banquet for 10th Anniversary of Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), National University of Ireland, Galway [now University of Galway] and email correspondence between Yvonne McDermott, Lecturer, Children's Rights, ICHR, and Mary Baylis [personal assistant to MR], 03/03-19/11/2010.

Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2011. It includes material relating to MR giving 2011 Ethics and Leadership Lecture at Dominican University, Brennan School of Business, on 18 October, including flyer, correspondence between MR, Mary Baylis [personal assistant to MR], and Donna M Carroll, President of Dominican University, regarding invite to MR to speak, partial address and event itinerary, 20/07/2010-18/10/2011; material relating to MR giving lecture at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) as part of Arts and Lecture Series, including event itinerary, text of earlier remarks made by MR "Protecting the Most Vulnerable: The Role of Climate Justice", at Institute of International and European Affairs on 5th September 2011, which was used as draft, and printed email relating to pre-lecture reception given by Robert and Gretchen Lieff, sent by Verena L Young, Senior Director of Development, Arts & Lectures, UCSB, 05/09-21/10/2011; material relating to lecture "Combating World Hunger and Poverty", given by MR at The Boe Forum on Public Affairs, The Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on 9th November, including programme, draft text of lecture, event itinerary, background material on Augustana College, and press on event including cuttings, 08/11-10/11/2011.

Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2012. It includes material relating to John Donne Lecture "What if this present were the world's last night", given by MR at Hertford College, Oxford on 16 March, including text and draft of address, event poster, correspondence between MR and Dr Tony Barnard, Hertford College and Will Hutton, Principal, Hertford College, 02/03/2011-19/03/2012; material relating to MR giving talk and participating in panel discussion at Hood College, Department of Political Science, 26-27 March, including programme flyers, agenda and itinerary, and thank you card from Kristan Strader with linocut print; material relating to MR's lecture as part of 25th Anniversary Distinguished Speaker Series, at University of Buffalo, State University of New York, on 29th March including flyers, event itinerary, newspaper cutting and article printout, handwritten notes and background information on previous speakers, 03/2012; event itinerary for "An Evening with Mary Robinson - Reflections on Peace and Social Justice", at Utah State University Center for Women and Gender on 10th October; thank you letter from Helen-Louise Murphy, Events Manager, University of Dundee to MR following MR's Christmas lecture "Everybody Matters", on 8th of December, linked to her book release of same name, 10/12/2012 with event flyers, posters.

Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2013. It includes material relating to lecture "The Future of Ethical Leadership in a Global Society", given by MR at Pennsylvania State University, Schreyer Honors College, on 13 March, including flyer, programme, handwritten notes, event itinerary and poster, [03]/2013; event itinerary for appearances by MR at California State University, East Bay, Scripps College [The Women's College, Claremont], and University of California, San Diego, 08-10/04/2013, with flyers and handwritten notes, [04?]/2013.

Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2014. It includes material relating to opening of The Women's Library, London School of Economics [See P143/3/9 and P143/3/20/6], at which MR makes address, including draft text of address with notation, typed list of questions to Elizabeth Chapman, Director of Library Services from campaigners with Feminist and Women's Libraries and Archives Network (FLA) on controversies surrounding opening, guest-list of attendees, handwritten letter from Elizabeth Chapman, Director of Library Services, thanking MR for opening the library, booklets on the library, set of postcards covering suffragettes, and A3 poster (P143/3/20/6), 30/01-20/03/2014; material relating to international symposium "Women's Leadership, Supporting Peace and Building Sustainable Livelihoods in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Region", National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), 1-2 July, at which MR gave address including correspondence between MR, Dr Niamh Reilly, Global Women's Studies, NUIG, and James Brown, President of NUIG, regarding logistics and symposium content, Irish Centre for Human Rights [at NUIG] bulletin, April 2014, schedule, handwritten notes and background material, text of MR's address, newspaper cutting regarding MR being becoming UN special envoy for climate change, and report of joint study by Global Women's Studies, NUIG and Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Washington DC "Women's Leadership and Participation in the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes Region: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities", by Niamh Reilly and Roslyn Warren, July 2014, with printouts of same, 17/04-02/07/2014; material relating to MR's opening address at International Mediation and Restorative Practices Conference, Edward M Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention, Maynooth University, 5 September 2014, including email correspondence between Peter Cassells and Siobháin Brophy, Executive Assistant to the President, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice (MRFCJ), regarding logistics, draft address which used part of address from NUIG conference in July 2014, schedules and print out of conference programme, 22/07-05/09/2014; material relating to MR delivering the Fourth Annual Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture, University of Western Cape, 7 October, including correspondence between MR, Siobháin Brophy (MRFCJ), Cathy Glavey, MRFCJ, and Laverne Martin, Administration Assistant, and Mpho Tutu, Executive Director, Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy foundation, 12/06-25/08/2014; material relating to MR's lunch discussion at Colorado State University (CSU), 27 October, including itinerary, profiles of participants, MR's handwritten notes and background material on CSU and its School of Global Environmental Sustainability, 26-27/10/2014; briefing book for MR's visit to Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 10-11/11/2014, including participant profiles, schedule, course information and student questions for MR [see P143/3/20/7]; material relating to MR recording video message for official launch of Kevin Boyle archive at NUIG Symposium "The Human Rights Scholar-Activist or Activist-Scholar?", on 28 November 2014. including programme, biography on Kevin Boyle, MR's handwritten notes and talking points for recording, 13-28/11/2014.

Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2015. It includes material relating to MR's visit to University of Arizona (UA) to deliver Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice Distinguished Lecture "Looking at Climate Change as a Human rights issue", and attending UA Science Biosphere 2 Board of Advisors meeting [as guest?], 12 March, including itinerary, participant profiles, MR's handwritten notes, welcome card from Ann Weaver Hart, President University of Arizona, thank-you card from Diana Live[rman?], UA Science Biosphere 2 material consisting of agenda, list of board members/guests and minutes; material relating to Princeton University's Princeton-Fung Global Forum "Modern Plagues: Lessons Learned from the Ebola Crisis", held at University College Dublin, 2-3 November, 2015, including correspondence between Patti Mitrushi, American Program Bureau, Elisabeth Hirschhorn Donahue, Associate Dean for Public and External Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Siobhain Brophy and Katie Smith, Executive Assistants to MR at Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, forum programme and speaker information sheet, briefing note for MR's meeting with Margaret Chan, event itinerary, articles such as MR's foreword in Health and Human Rights Journal, 01 July 2014, and on Ebola response by World Health Organisation and Human Rights Watch, 01/07/2014-02/11/2015.

UA Science Biosphere 2 material including financial statement, grant submission,

Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2016. It includes material relating to MR's participation in UCLA [University College Los Angeles] Luskin Lecture Series, 12 January 2016, including correspondence between Patti Mitrushi, Event coordinator, American Program bureau, Kate O'Neal, Assistant Dean, External Relations, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Katie Smith, Executive Assistant to the President, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice and Nick Robinson (for MR), event itinerary, and partial text of address, 20/11/2015-12/01/2016; material relating to MR giving keynote lecture at International workshop on "Climate Change and Its Impact: Risks and Inequalities", 10-11 March 2016, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including programme, event itinerary, and welcome card from organisers, 08/03/2016; draft text with MR's notation, of address "Education for Climate Justice", as part of Wolfson Lecture Series on Global Education, Wolfson College, Oxford, 19/05/2016.