News 2022 archive

2022.12.21

New article published in Privacy Studies Journal

A new article has been published in Centre for Privacy Studies’ very own open access, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal: Privacy Studies Journal (PSJ). The article titled Position Paper: Escaping Academic…

2022.12.19

PRIVACY-PhD, Anni H. Henriksen in new job at Karberghus Ejendomme A/S

From studying the private mind to disseminating the history of Copenhagen Architecture On 10 October, our very first PRIVACY-PhD, Anni Haahr Henriksen, defended her PhD thesis The Private Mind in Elizabethan England.…

Call for Papers

2022.12.08

Call for Papers: Privacy Matters. How Interiors make and break our Cities.

Call for Papers for the international conference: Privacy Matters. How Interiors make and break our Cities. Deadline for submission is January 6, 2023.

2022.11.29

Natália da Silva Perez receives Sapere Aude grant

We are thrilled to announce that Natália da Silva Perez, postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Privacy Studies, has been rewarded the Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The Sapere Aude…

2022.11.17

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun as Keynote Speaker at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022

On Wednesday November 16 2022, centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun gave a keynote lecture at the International Association of Privacy Professional (IAPP) Europe Data Protection Congress 2022 in Brussels. Around 2000…

2022.09.09

New PRIVACY article published: 'Heinrich Hahn (1605-1668), A Portrait of a Lutheran Jurist at the University of Helmstedt'

The article is based on a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Privacy researchers Paolo Astorri and Søren Frank Jensen. Find the article here. The article is published in the journal Zeitschrift der…

2022.08.18

New Open Access PRIVACY article out: Zones of Privacy in Letters Between Women of Power: Elizabeth I of England and Anna of Sax

Authors: Dustin M. Neighbors and Natacha Klein Käfer

2022.08.15

Mette Birkedal Bruun speaks at the leadership retreat of the International Association of Privacy Professionals

On 22 June Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun gave a lecture in the session Privacy and Faith at the annual leadership retreat of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

2022.08.09

PRIVACY-workshop at the Computer Privacy Data Protection conference in Brussels

Postdoctoral researcher Natacha Klein Käfer gives her presentation ‘Borders and Epidemics: Controlling Information and Disease in Early Modern Saxony’ Science and Technology scholar Katja Pape de Neergaard (STAY…

2022.06.28

PRIVACY researcher Paolo Astorri receives the prestigious Van Caenegem Prize 2022

Paolo Astorri was awarded the 2022 Van Caenegem Prize from the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) for his article “Can a judge rely on his private knowledge? Early modern Lutherans and Catholics…

2022.06.27

Tiffany Jenkins at the Centre for Privacy Studies – Read the Interview

In early June, the Centre for Privacy Studies welcomed the Edinburgh-based author, Tiffany Jenkins, to discuss her upcoming book: Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life and the long history of privac…

2022.06.23

Annual report from 2021 published

Centre for Privacy Studies' 2021-report was recently published, meaning that it is now possible to follow the centre's activities in 2021. The report contains information on publications, conferences, research projects…

2022.06.20

PRIVACY researcher Sari Nauman awarded the prestigious Pro Futura Scientia Fellowship

We are happy to announce that our PRIVACY researcher Sari Nauman is among the selected scholars.

2022.06.17

Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow Nuno Grancho invited speaker at EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow Nuno Grancho and his project INDIABRIDGE selected by 10th edition of EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF)

2022.06.10

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun joins two panels at this year’s ‘Folkemøde’ at Bornholm

Folkemødet is the annual Democracy Festival of Denmark where civil society, politicians, business, media, and universities meet for a democratic dialogue. The Democracy Festival of Denmark is composed of various events…

2022.06.10

PRIVACY Postdoctoral researchers invited to teach at the Center of African Studies (CAS) methods course with a focus on digital

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of the Center of African Studies, invited the two Privacy Scholars, Natacha Klein Käfer and Natália da Silva Perez, with a scholarly profile on Digital Humanities to…

2022.06.03

PRIVACY Researcher Frank Ejby Poulsen gave an invited lecture at the initiative OpenLFM (Open Lectures on Freemasonry)

Transcending the Public and the Private: The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémy

2022.05.20

New publication by postdoctoral Researcher Frank Ejby Poulsen

"Transcending the Public and the Private: The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémy", in Early Modern French Studies

2022.05.11

Welcome to two new guest researchers

As of 1 May, Liam Benison and Jelena Bakic have joined PRIVACY as guest researchers. Jelena Bakic has a PhD in early modern European literature from the University of Porto and the Charles University of Prague.…

2022.04.26

A BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF PRIVACY - Interview with Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun

Prof. Mette Birkedal Bruun, Director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Privacy Studies shares her expectations of RAID Digital, and ponders how history can help with today’s challenges

2022.04.26

New PRIVACY guest researcher: José Eloy Hortal Muñoz

José Eloy Hortal Muñoz

2022.03.18

Keynote lecture by Ann Thomson now available: Expressing Opinions in the Early 18th-Century Republic of Letters

The keynote lecture by Ann Thomson is from our PRIVACY conference in 2021 and has been paraphrased by PRIVACY Postdoctoral Researcher Frank Ejby Poulsen Introduction and definitions The focus of this paper is on how…

2022.03.10

New Partnership with the organization RAID - Regulation of AI, Internet & Data

Centre for Privacy Studies and RAID Digital have entered a partnership.

2022.02.14

PRIVACY Core Scholar behind chapter in WILL, WORKS AND VALUES – J.C. JACOBSEN’S VILLA AT CARLSBERG

PRIVACY Core Scholar Peter Thule Kristensen has contributed to the new book WILL, WORKS AND VALUES – J.C. JACOBSEN’S VILLA AT CARLSBERG.

2022.02.03

New PRIVACY book: Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia

Anthology Editors are Sari Nauman and Helle Vogt and the book includes contributions by several PRIVACY researchers. This open access book looks at how, in the 17th and 18th centuries, a new loanword 'private' came int…

2022.01.31

New special PRIVACY issue of the T-SEG, The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History

Privacy and the Private in Early Modern Dutch Contexts.

2022.01.13

WESTIN Award Winner 2021: PRIVACY Summer School Student Alexander Møller-Sørensen

PRIVACY Summer School student Alexander Møller-Sørensen, student at Communication and IT studies, Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen University, has received the prestigious Westin Scholar Book Award. Alexander…