File 19 - Addresses 2014

559pp

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.

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