Jonathan Petropoulos, the John V. Croul Professor of European History and director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, will be presenting at the Sept. 29-30 Royal Kinship Anglo-German Family Networks 1760-1914 conference in London.
The conference is co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute London and the Prince Albert Society. Numerous British and German scholars will be gathering at Windsor Castle, the site of the Royal Archives, to examine the transnational kinship through 250 years of private correspondence from the Royal Archives. Speakers, who will be discussing each of the six German ruling houses related to the British royals, have based their papers on documentation from the Royal Archives, related to the Anglo-German kinship. The German Historical Institute intends to publish the proceedings.
Although his recent book, Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2006), looks at the World War II actions of Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kasselgreat-grandsons of Queen Victoria of EnglandPetropoulos will be speaking about the Hessen family from an earlier period.
To write his book, Petropoulos, also the associate director of The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at CMC, was granted unprecedented access to the Hessen family private papers from the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle.
In addition to participating in the conference, he will be promoting Royals and the Reich while in London.
Caitlin Stuart '07