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.
Material relating to 2023 Global Women Leaders’ Summit, organised by Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Georgetown University, and The Rockefeller Foundation, 05-08/06/2023, consisting of summit programme, participant biographies and background material, including LPR [Lake Research Partners] article "Best Policies in Governance: Confronting Challenges to Women's Political Leadership", She Persisted article "Gendered Disinformation and Online Abuse Against Women in Politics are a Threat to Democracy", NDI "Ending Online Violence Against Women in Politics: Current Status and Next Steps", backgrounder "Advancing Inclusive Climate Action", and reprint of article "Toward a Progressive Economic Agenda", Mariana Mazzucato, 05/10/2022, two colour photographs of the Women Leaders including Mary Robinson and Hillary Clinton, and list of participants' hotel rooms (excluding Clinton).
This subseries consists of material relating to Commencement and/or convocation events Mary Robinson (MR) attended as speaker, excluding those she attended as Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin (P143/3/1/8), and is arranged chronologically.
[For material relating to honorary degrees she received, see P143/10]
Programme for 158th commencement at Austin College, Sherman, Texas, at which Mary Robinson (MR) was a speaker, 16/05/2004; material relating to 169th commencement at Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts, USA, at which MR was speaker, 22/05/2004, including correspondence between MR, Patti Mitrushi, American Program Bureau, and Dale Rogers Marshall, and Michael Graca, Wheaton College, relating to invite and logistics, event itinerary, "Top 10 facts about Wheaton 2003" background document, and fax of Order of Exercises, 04/03-20/05/2004; programme booklet for McGill [University, Montréal Québec, Canada] Spring Convocation, Law, at which MR gave convocation address, 04/06/2004.
Griffith Honors Forum Lecture, "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization" South Dakota State University 18 February 2004.
Montgomery Fellow Lecture "Making Human Rights the Compass", Dartmouth College, 9 October 2007. [See also P143/3/17/12]
"Looking at Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue", talk and book signing, Mount Holyoke College, 9 March 2013
Material relating to the press reception and official opening of Mary Robinson (MR)'s presidential campaign committee headquarters at the committee's headquarters, 15 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, 25/07/1990. Includes invites, some replies including from Darina Allen's secretary, Rosalie Dunne, list of campaign committee and trustees of the MR Election fund, press launch invitation list, press release, copies of thank-yous sent to attendees, MR campaign stickers and visitors book with signatures for the launch itself.
Ref: P143/4/1/1/3
Correspondence between Mary Robinson (MR) and public, colleagues and friends, ahead and following her nomination as candidate for the Irish Presidential Election, 26 April 1990, through to the presidential election, 7 November 1990, and announcement of her success subsequently.
Ref: P143/4/1/2
Correspondence between Mary Robinson (MR) and public, colleagues and friends, following her nomination as candidate for the Irish Presidential Election, April 1990, including messages of congratulations, offers of support, advice and suggestions on how to tackle issue of Divorce and Abortion. It includes correspondence with Anthony Lester, QC, 02-07/05/1990; congratulations from the Ballina Urban District Council, 07-23/05/1990; letter from Christine O'Shea, confirming full support from Labour Women's National Council, 20/05/1990; invite from Dick Spring, TD, Leader of the Labour Party, to the Confederation of Socialist Parties of the European Community Party Leaders' Conference, Dublin Castle, June 1990, 25/05/1990.
Ref: P143/4/1/2/2