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.