Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with KAUST [King Abdullah University of Science and Technology], Saudi Arabia, as member of extraordinary 20-member international Board of Trustees, Jan-Mar 2009. It consists of correspondence with Bernadette McCusker, Secretary to Interim President, regarding Board of Trustees orientation, 28/12/2008-10/01/2009; correspondence from William F Stamm, General Counsel and Secretary, KAUST to MR, 31/01/2009, with material relating to the founding of KAUST including proposed three-year meeting schedule, KAUST Charter approved by Royal Order, 11/12/2006, By-Laws approved by same 20/10/2007, Articles of governance approved by Board of Trustees, 27/06/2008, Trustee Conflict of Interest Policy approved by same, 27/06/2008; set of five KAUST business cards for Abdullah I Almojel, Ahmad O Al-Khowaiter, Omar Bukhari, Atef M Ruzli and Prof Brian Moran, no date; two copies of briefing pack for KAUST Board of Trustees orientation meeting, Jeddah, 26/27 Jan 2009; correspondence between Stamm, MR and Mary Baylis [assistant to MR?], 12/02-14/03/2009 regarding Board of Trustees meeting, April 2009.
Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with KAUST [King Abdullah University of Science and Technology], Saudi Arabia, as member of extraordinary 20-member international Board of Trustees, Jan - Mar 2010. It consists of correspondence between Bernadette McCusker, KAUST University, and members of the Board in relation to committee membership listings, schedules, agendas, 10/01-18/02/2010; correspondence between MR and William (Bill) Stamm, [Secretary to KAUST Board of Trustees], in relation to upcoming meetings for Board and for Culture and Community Committee, 12/01-22/02/2010; letter from Nasser Nafisee, Secretary to KAUST Culture and Community Committee, in relation to same, 09/02/2010 with briefing book containing welcoming remarks, review of committee charter, and presentations on "Culture in the Making", "An Evolving Community - Academic Life", "Student Progress, Achievements and Cultural Adjustments" and "KAUST Citizenship Efforts in the Development of the Neighbouring Village - 'Thuwal'"; KAUST University's Financial Operations Plan and Budget for following fiscal year, as approved by Executive Committee of Board, with cover letter from Stamm to MR, 01/03/2010.
Material relating to Mary Robinson (MR)'s work with KAUST [King Abdullah University of Science and Technology], Saudi Arabia, as member of extraordinary 20-member international Board of Trustees, October - December 2010. It consists of correspondence from William F Stamm, [Secretary to KAUST Board of Trustees], to the Board regarding minutes of Board's August meeting, and announcement of October Executive Committee meeting appointing Dr Stefan Catsicas as University Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, 04/10-08/11/2010; Board of Trustees briefing book for meeting, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 16/12/2010; programme of KAUST's inaugural commencement ceremony, sent to MR by Stamm, 22/12/2010.
[Board of Trustees briefing book includes minutes of meeting 07/08/2010, minutes of Executive Committee's meeting 23/10/2010, report of the Investment Committee, report of the Board Audit Committee, proposed reservation of Research Park lot for The Dow Chemical Company, allocation of lot and lease of building for SABIC, approval of the audited consolidated financial statements of the university for fiscal year ending 30/06/2010.]
BRAC report 2009, published May 2010 (three copies), BRAC "Realising Potential" report 2009 in presentation folder, and information booklet, department of architecture, BRAC University, 200[?].
Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2003 including correspondence between Anne-Marie Slaughter and Cecilia Canessa (for MR) regarding visit to Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University in April 2003, for Princeton Colloquium on International Affairs, 24-29/09/2002, and press release and Princeton weekly bulletin relating to MR presenting lecture "From Rhetoric to Reality: Human Rights and Globalization", on 6th February 2003 for Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs [possibly same event and date/plan changed]; material relating to MR delivering Tanner Lecture, Stanford University, 12-14/02/2003 including programme, text of lecture in two parts "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization" and "The Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa", email correspondence between MR and Eavan Boland on MR accepting invite to give lecture, 10/01/2002, correspondence between MR and Dr Grethe Peters, Director, Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Utah, with CV and publishing agreement for lecture to be published by University of Utah Press, 10/01-03/02/2003, text of comments by Larry Diamond on MR's lecture, 14/02/2003 and from Susan Okin, with cover email, and paper by Okin “Poverty, Well-being and Gender: What Counts?, Who’s Heard?”, 14/02/2003, and three copies of MR’s lecture as reported by CL Blake for Niccoli Reporting; photocopy of fax from John K Roth, Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of the holocaust, Genocide and Human rights, Claremont McKenna College, California, to MR thanking her for Spring visit, 21/04/2003; material relating to MR delivering the 5th annual Grotius Lecture, "Shaping Globalization: The Role of Human Rights", at American University Washington DC, 2nd April, 2003, including text of lecture, letter of thanks from Daniel D Bradlow, Professor of Law and Director, International Legal Studies Program, 09/04/2003, correspondence between MR and Edra London, Proceedings Production Editor, American Society of International Law (ASIL), in relation to MR's lecture being published in 2003 ASIL Proceedings, 23/09-29/10/2003, and photocopy of its published version, 27/11/2002-29/10/2003; material relating to Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) general conference, 31/08-04/09/2003, Queens University Belfast (QUB), including conference programme, opening ceremony programme, photocopy of conference abstracts and list of delegates, letter from Sir George Bain, Vice-Chancellor, QUB, inviting MR to give keynote address, with reply from MR with handwritten draft, 23/01-20/02/2003 and regarding text of keynote speech, 19/03-29/08/2003, letter from Chris Hogwood, ACU Press Office regarding press for event, 09/05/2003, correspondence between Dorothy Garland, Director of External Relations and Deputy Secretary General ACU, Nicola Skelly, Assistant Secretary, Vice-Chancellor's Office, QUB and Mary Baylis, personal assistant to MR, regarding logistics for event, 11/07-29/08/2003, press release for conference, 04/08/2003,and text of MR's address "Who is your community in a globalizing world?", 01/09/2003; correspondence between Patti Mitrushi, APB [American Program Bureau] and MR relating to MR giving President's Distinguished Lecture, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 25/08-05/09/2003; correspondence relating to MR delivering Will Judy Lecture, on 23rd September, at Juniata College, Huntington, Pennsylvania, from Dr James M Skelly, Senior Fellow, Juniata College, to MR, 28/01/2003, and between Patti Mitrushi, Mary Baylis, and James [Jim] Tuten, Assistant Provost, 14/01-16/09/2003; material relating to “The Future of Globalization – Explorations in Light of Recent Turbulence” conference, Yale University, 10-11 October, including fax and email from Ernesto Zedillo, Director, Yale Center for Study of Globalization, Yale University regarding MR’s acceptance of invite, 30/05-19/06/2003, conference programme and preliminary programme, draft text of MR’s opening remarks “Globalization and the future of human rights”, and paper by participant Jagdish Bhagwati “A False Alarm, Why globalization HAS a Human Face & How to Make it Work Better”; material relating to lecture given by MR at McGill University, 18 October at alumni event, including correspondence from Martha Crago, Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies with flight details, 14/10/2003, and correspondence between Barbara E Whiston, Assistant to the Dean in relation to payment of honorarium, 18/09-18/11/2003; material relating to MR giving the Deneke Lecture, on 24th October, Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), Oxford, including correspondence between Angela Gustafsson, Development Officer, LMH, and MR’s colleagues at EGI, Scott Jerbi [Senior Advisor] and Mary Baylis [Personal Assistant], 28-31/07/2003, letter to MR from Dr Frances Lannon, Principal, LMH querying who MR wanted to invite, 05/09/2003, draft of MR’s lecture “Reflection on Cancun: making trade work for human rights”, and correspondence from Brian Cronin, American Program Bureau, regarding the honorarium for this engagement and another at Vermillion, South Dakota, 17/04/2003; material relating to MR delivering Silver lecture, at School of International and Public Affairs, on 28 October 2003, including faxed invite from Lisa Anderson, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 16/06/2003, text of lecture "Ethical Globalization: Connecting Human rights, Human Development and human Security", list of previous Gabriel Silver Lecturers, and text of remarks by Douglas Daft (previous Silver lecturer), 30th April 2003; material relating to MR delivering keynote speech at "Globalization with a Human Face" conference jointly organized by William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey and John Jay College, CUNY, including letter of invite from Prof Basil Wilson, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, JJC to MR and her response, 11-18/06/2003 and correspondence between Arnold Speert, President, William Paterson University, and MR, confirming her participation, 01/10/2003; APB event itinerary for talk at Olivet College on 12th November, and correspondence between Alan Nagy, Olivet College, Patti Mitrushi and Mary Baylis, 06-11/11/2003; copy of "Emma Lazarus Lecture on International Flows of Humanity", at Columbia University, 21/11/2003, given by unknown speaker; material relating to lecture given by MR "Towards an Ethical Globalization - Meeting the challenges of an interconnected and divided world", for International Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP) in cooperation with Prof Georgio Malinverni, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, on 26 November, including correspondence between MR, her colleagues in EGI and Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights Scott Jerbi, Cecilia Canessa, and Dr Mahmoud Mohamedou, Research Director, ICHRP in relation to invite and logistics, 18/08-20/10/2003, and email from Elena Ippoliti who had missed lecture, 26/11/2003; material relating to MR speaking as the Emory University Institute for Women's Studies Rosalynn Carter Distinguished Lecturer on 3rd December, including correspondence between MR, Rosalynn Carter, Carter's assistant Melissa Montgomery, Berky D Abreu, Office Manager, Emory University Department of Women's Studies, MR's personal assistant Mary Baylis, and Scott Jerbi [Senior Advisor to MR, possibly colleague at EGI], 26/03/2002-02/12/2003.
Material relating to talks Mary Robinson (MR) gave at Academic Institutions in 2004. It includes material relating to MR giving Sadat Lecture for Peace, at University of Maryland (UMD), 17th March 2004, consisting of invite from Dr Jehan Sadat, and response from MR, 04-17/09/2004, further correspondence concerning logistics and thanking MR for accepting invite from CD Mote Jr, President, UMD, Aysha Ismail, Co-ordinator, Sadat chair for Peace and Development, Sapienza Barone, assistant to Mote, and Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, 29/10/2003-16/03/2004, text of MR's lecture "The Journey to Peace: Finding ourselves in the other", programme for MR's lecture, and booklets of previous lectures from President Ezer Weizman [of Israel], 1997, Former President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, 2001 and Kofi Annan, Secretary General United Nations, 2002; material relating to MR giving address at Paul O'Dwyer Forum on Ethics and Politics, George Washington University (GWU), Washington DC, on 17th March including invite from Brian O'Dwyer, O'Dwyer and Bernstein LLP, and response from MR 14-27/08/2003, further correspondence concerning logistics and programming to MR and her personal assistant Mary Bayliss, from Dean Christopher Arterton, Richard Virgin, Chief Advancement Officer, GWU, 21/10/2003-11/03/2004, background material on Paul O'Dwyer, correspondence relating to request for interview between Baylis and Rebecca Weber, 01-04/03/2004, photocopy of invite from Irish Ambassador Noel Fahey to Mary and Nick Robinson to lunch on 18th March, official programme, draft address, and background material on GWU's Graduate School of Political Management, including small business card-shaped [shared] compact disc; programme for "A Conversation with Mary Robinson", Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, [Connecticut], 4th April, 2004; material relating to MR giving te Richard S Levitt Distinguished Lecture, at University of Iowa (UI), 16th April 2004, including programme, and folder of letters of thanks from school pupils, ages 10-12 years, at Hoover School, Iowa City, and from their teacher Marlene M Johnson, all of whom attended the lecture, 14-16/04/2004; draft text of John Kevany Memorial Lecture "Global Health - the Challenges", given by MR at Irish Forum for Global Health inaugural conference, Trinity School of Nursing & Midwifery Studies, [Trinity College Dublin], 7th July 2004, and certificate of attendance; printed email from Macdara Doyle, Concern Communications Unit, concerning press release they were issuing announcing MR's participation at Bangkok AIDS conference, 07/07/2004; material relating to MR delivering William W Bishop Lecture in International Law, at University of Michigan Law School, on 21 October consisting of letter of invite from Evan H Caminker, Dean and Professor of Law, with response from May Baylis, personal assistant to MR, 21/01-04/03/2004, and correspondence from Virginia Gordon, Assistant Dean of International Programs, concerning the payment of honorarium, 07/12/2004.
Material also includes letter from James Tuten, Assistant Provost, Juniata College, with transcript of MR's address on 23 September 2003, for approval for publication in their in-house journal Juniata Voices, 03/03/2004; print out of letter of invite to MR to be speaker at new Joan B Kroc distinguished Lecture series, at Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San Diego, Spring/Autumn 2004, 22/09/2003; from Joyce Neu, Executive Director, letter of invite to MR from Thomas J Nolan, Nolan, Armstrong & Barton LLP, Palo Alto, California, to give Tobriner lecture at Hastings College of Law in October 2004, 01/12/2003.
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 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 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 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.