Thursday, 16 January 2020
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Christina von Hodenberg (Director of the GHIL)
Cindy McCreery (Sydney) and Falko Schnicke (London)
Robert Aldrich (Sydney), Family Matters: Global Royal Families in History and Historiography
Session 1: Royals in International Affairs and Diplomacy
Moritz A. Sorg (Freiburg), Strangers in Their Own Kingdom: The First World War as a Crisis of Transnational Monarchy
Michael Kandiah (London), The British Royal Families as Diplomats, 1952 to the Present Day
Session 2: The Windsors and Foreign Royal Houses
Falko Schnicke (London): Family Diplomacy: Using the British Royal Family as a Rhetoric Asset in Twentieth-Century State Visits
Hilary Sapire (London), The Zulu Royal House and the British Monarchy in the Early Twentieth Century
Keynote
Frank Mort (Manchester), Democracy, Diplomacy and Populism: A History of the Modern British Monarchy from Below
Friday, 17 January 2020
Session 3: The Global Reach of the British Monarchy
John R. Davis (London), British Royal Attitudes to India in the Nineteenth Century and the Influence of German Philology
Christian Oberländer (Halle-Wittenberg), The British Royal Family as a Model for Japan’s Imperial House in the Twentieth Century
Session 4: Royal Travel
Javier Moreno-Luzón (Madrid), The Majesty of the Race: The Spanish Royal Family and America (1902-1931)
Aglaja Weindl (Munich), Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria – An Unexpected Global Royal
Session 5: Global Encounters
Judith Rowbotham (Plymouth), ”…to be cheered vociferously by the crowd” – Royal Trips to the Colo-nies: Reaching Out to the Empire, 1875-1914
Cindy McCreery (Sydney), Meeting the Global Royal Family: The 1881 Visits of King Kalakaua of Hawai’i and Princes Albert Victor and George of Great Britain to the Meiji Emperor of Japan
Session 6: Letters and Advice Between Royals
Susanne Bauer (Trier), Writing to Influence: The Correspondence of the Prussian Queen and German Empress Augusta (1811-1890)
Mary T. Duarte (Milwaukee), Royal Marriages, Royal Advice: Instructions from Queen Mothers
Keynote
Irene Stengs (Amsterdam), The Politics of Thai Royal Ritual and the New Reign: Historical and Anthro-pological Perspectives
Saturday, 18 January 2020
Session 7: Regional Dynasties and Transnational Royal Families
Aidan Jones (London), Anglo-Russian Royal Family Connections: A Transnational Prince and the Diplomacy of a Dynastic Marriage
Priya Naik (Delhi), Gadgets, Goods and Technology: Consumption of Indian Royal Families (1920-1948)
Session 8: International Influence and Evolution of Models of Monarchy
Nicholas Miller (Lisbon), Kalakaua of Hawai’I and Abu Bakar of Johore: Indigenous Kingship, Contract Labour and pan-Malay Overtures in the Late Nineteenth-Century Asia-Pacific
Charles Reed (Elizabeth City), Princely Tourists: Gaekwads of Baroda in Britain before and after the End of Empire
Reflections on the Conference & Closing Discussion