Conference Overview:

Introduction
Natália da Silva Perez

Welcome address
Prof. Mette Birkedal Bruun

Keynote 1

Willem Frijhoff (Rotterdam/Amsterdam): A Privacy Case-Study of a Franco-Dutch Family Network around 1600
Chair: Michaël Green

Panel 1: The Privilege of Privacy in French Contexts
Chair: Michèle Seehafer

Mathieu Laflamme (Ottawa/Toulouse): Surveiller et Écrire: Understanding The History of Sexual Intimacy from 18th Century French Judicial Sources

Marian Rothstein (Kenosha, WI): On Marguerite d’Angoulême and Catherine de’ Medici

Ditlev Tamm (Copenhagen): L’Abbé de Choisy – Crossdressing and Privacy in 17th Century France

Keynote 2

Mia Korpiola (Turku): A Legal Historical Perspective on Possibilities for Privacy in Medieval Swedish Society
Chair: Natália da Silva Perez

Panel 2: Privacy, Ethics, and the Law
Chair: Anni Haahr Henriksen

Natacha Klein Käfer (Berlin): Dynamics of Healer-Patient Confidentiality in Early Modern Witch Trials

Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (Bergen) and Pernille Ulla Knudsen (Copenhagen): The Discourse of the Melancholy Murder and Public Space

Francesca Iurlaro (Florence): On the Empathy of Reason: Thomas Cajetan on Food Ethics and Animal Rights

Keynote 3

Maarten Delbeke (Zurich): Privacy and Exemplarity in Roman Baroque Art and Architecture
Chair: Fabio Gigone

Panel 3: Conspicuous Privacy
Chair: Lars Cyril Nørgaard

Christine Jeanneret (Versailles): Soundscapes of Early Modern Rome, Private and Public Spaces: Noises and Music as Performance of Identity

Anne Régent-Susini (Paris): Is there a Place for Privacy in an Early Modern Funeral Sermon? Good Deeds and Inner Life in French 17th Century Oraisons Funèbres

Walter S. Melion (Atlanta, GE): Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as Artisans of the Heart and Home in Manuscript MPM R 35 Vita S. Ioseph beatissimae Virginis sponsi of ca. 1600

Panel 4: Privacy, Rituals, Space
Chair: Fredrik Torisson

Lee Palmer Wandel (Madison, WI): The Moment of Communion

Dag Lindström (Uppsala) and Göran Tagesson (Linköping): Spaces for Comfort, Seclusion and Privacy in Swedish 18th Century Towns

Valeria Viola (York): Secret Routes, Overlapping Views, and Blurring Borders: The Case of Palazzo Papè di Valdina in Palermo (1715–1742)

Keynote 4

Hélène Merlin-Kajman (Paris): Privé and Particulier in France in the 17th Century
Chair: Bastian Joseph Nolsøe Vaucanson

Panel 5: Privacy, Discourse, and Knowledge-Making
Chair: Anna Becker

Hang Lin (Hangzhou): Paratext, Printing and Examination: Negotiating Knowledge Authority between the State and the Private in Early Modern China

Ivana Bičak (Durham): Virtue or Vice: Privacy in the Early Modern Scientific Experiment

Thomas Max Safley (Philadelphia, PA): The Irony of Secrecy: Merchant Families, Family Firms and the Porous Boundaries between Private and Public Life in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe