6 May - 7 May 2019
Letters were the most important means of communication in Early Modern Europe. In written correspondence, individuals shared scholarly ideas, represented intimate experiences, planned artistic projects, challenged social conventions, and much more. In such exchanges, writers readily refer to individual states and to personal opinions, but always in a socially shared space of communication, defying any notion of a privacy untouched by the public. How do we examine Early Modern correspondences in a way that takes seriously individual aspects as well as social conventions? At the workshop Privacy in Early Modern Correspondences, a number of prominent international scholars join members of the Centre for Privacy Studies in tackling this methodological challenge. Focusing on individual letter writers, on specific correspondences, and other contexts of epistolary communication, we will examine aspects of Early Modern correspondences as they relate to the private and the public. List of Speakers Prof. Hubert Bost, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres Prof. Emeritus Richard Maber, University of Durham Dr. Ineke Huysman, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Postdoc. Eelco d. Nagelsmit, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen PhD Fellow Bram van der Leeuwen School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews Postdoc. Michaël Green, PRIVACY, University of Copenhagen Lars Cyril Nørgaard, PRIVACY, University of Copenhagen and CRCV, Versailles Programme and Registration The full programme will be available shortly. The seminar is open and free to all. Please register here. Picture Credits: F. van Mieris, De briefschrijfster (The Letter-writer), 1680. Oil on wooden panel. Cat. Num. SK-A-261 © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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