The Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding endowed lecture series of The College of Arts & Sciences will host Mary Robinson at 8 p.m. February 6 in Baker Hall, Zoellner Center, Lehigh University. The first woman president of Ireland, a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will speak on “Climate Justice: Why Climate Change is a Threat to Human Rights.”

The teacher, legislator and barrister has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate. She is chair of the Council of Women World Leaders and is a member of the Global Commission on International Migration.

She and her husband, Nicholas Robinson, founded the Irish Centre for European Law at the University of Dublin and, since 1998, she has been Chancellor of the University.

The event is open to the public and is free. No tickets are required. For information, visit https://oip.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/2018-kenner-lecture-climate-justice-why-climate-change-threat-human-rights