Early Modern Privacy: Notions, Spaces, Implications

We are proud to say that our inaugural PRIVACY conference Early Modern Privacy: Notions, Spaces, Implications that took place 9-11 April 2019 at the Danish Royal Society of Science and Letters was a success. It was a joy for the PRIVACY team to welcome colleagues from a multitude of disciplines, to present the Centre’s methodology and exchange insights and disciplinary differences regarding the view of manifestations and absence of privacy in the early modern period.

The conference offered a unique opportunity for scholars to meet and discuss the multiple facets of notions of privacy. Historians of architecture, economy, ideas, law, literature, philosophy, religious culture as well as archeologists and philosophers from Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the US joined us for presentations and discussions as well as ponderings of the exhibition.

We spent three fruitful and inspiring days delving into historical studies of how privacy was understood, protected, and challenged in myriad ways in the early modern period.

The breadth of subjects treated at the conference is evident in the keynote lectures.

Organising Committee 

Michaël Green, Natália da Silva Perez, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Helle Vogt

Exhibition coordinators

Fredrik Torisson
Rikke Lyngsø Christensen
Fabio Gigone

Photo credit: The Holburne Museum

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