PRIVACY Events

13 Sept. - 14 Sept. 2018

Conference: The Eyes and Ears of Power - Surveillance, History and Privacy

International conference on the history of surveillance, bringing together surveillance scholars and historians from across the globe.

24 Sept. 2018, 9:00-11:00

Living a Christian Life

Therese Tamm Selander , Phd student in Church History at Uppsala University, will present her study on the daily Christian life of Mathilda Foy (1813-1869) who was engaged in the Evangelical revival movement  in Stockholm, Sweden.

28 Sept. 2018, 13

Shakespeare’s private life

Seminar with Professor Lena Cowen Orlin

5 Oct. 2018

Mette Birkedal Bruun was an Invited Speaker at Humboldt University

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10 Oct. 2018, 14

Cancellation:Ordering Private Life: Oeconomia in Niels Hemmingsen (1513–1600)

Lecture by PhD Fellow in Church History at Aarhus University, Mattias Skat Sommer.

11 Oct. - 12 Oct. 2018

Private Reading in Early Modern Devotion: Materiality, Space and Spirit

At the two-day seminar Private Reading in Early Modern Devotion: Materiality, Space and Spirit, eight international scholars discuss the “private turn” in early modern religion seen through English, German and French examples of devotional reading.

25 Oct. 2018, 15:00-17:00

Challenge Seminar: What's private in private economy?

Economist Professor David Dreyer Lassen are joining the research team at PRIVACY for a this semesters first Challenge Seminar.

26 Oct. 2018, 14:00-16:00

Person, politi og privathed

CORA og PRIVACY inviterer til miniseminar om samspillet mellem politiet, individet og den private sfære fra enevælden til i dag.

5 Nov. - 16 Nov. 2018

AMSTERDAM INTERIORS - Privacy in temporary accommodation

Exhibition at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation

14 Nov. 2018, 14

Lecture on the Thirty Years War

Lecture by Professor of Church and Dogma History at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Johannes Schilling.

7 Dec. 2018, 13:00-14:30

Presentation by PRIVACY PhD Fellow Bastian Vaucanson at CEMES

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8 Feb. 2019, 14

From the Lutheran house to the domestic sphere: privacy, power and surveillance in Sweden, 1750-1850

Reseach seminar with PhD and Research Director at ENIGMA – Museum of Post, Tele and Communication, Andreas Marklund.

5 Mar. 2019, 15:15-17:30

Privacy Online - Human & Legal Solutions

Privacy Postdoc Michaël Green is a speaker at the event Privacy Online - Human & Legal Solutions

6 Mar. 2019, 15:00

AKH/PRIVACY Seminar: Sadness, music, love - and a helicopter

Section for Church History and PRIVACY are hosting a seminar on matters as different as sadness, music, love - and a helicopter. 

13 Mar. 2019, 14:00-16:00

In defense of their families: Women's malicious appeals in thirteenth-century England

Lecture by Sara M. Butler, King George III Professor in British History, Ohio State University

13 Mar. 2019, 15:00

Research Presentation by Privacy Scholars at KADK / Historical and Cultural Studies

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21 Mar. - 22 Mar. 2019

PRIVACY Seminar: Zones of Privacy in the Early Modern Netherlands

Early modern Netherlands was a place teeming with social change. New social dynamics had consequences for how people understood privacy, and this is the research focus of our first international seminar.

9 Apr. - 11 Apr. 2019

PRIVACY Conference: Early Modern Privacy

Conference: Early Modern Privacy - Notions, Spaces, Implications, Copenhagen, 9-11 April 2019

29 Apr. 2019, 15:00-17:00

Shepherd or Servant? The Private and Public Lives of the Pastor

Section for Church History and Centre for Privacy Studies have invited Mattias Skat Sommer to give a seminar on the Danish reformer, Niels Hemmingsen (1513-1600).

3 May - 20 May 2019

PRIVACY Exhibition: Form-of-Life - Privacy in the Layman’s Studiolo

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6 May - 7 May 2019

PRIVACY Seminar: Privacy in Early Modern Correspondences

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8 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Lecture on Beckett & the Theatre of the Absurd by PRIVACY PhD Fellow Anni Haahr Henriksen

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8 May 2019, 15:00-17:00

Challenge Seminar: Storage and Personalization in the Context of Human Genomes

National biobanks and health data archives are spaces for storing genomic material and data of individuals as a commonly shared resource. While we may think of storage as a way of temporarily disposing items of reduced usefulness for the owner, and thus loosening the ties between item and person, national initiatives to collect and store DNA from citizens have revealed the opposite.

29 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

PRIVACY Lecture by Jacob Soll, Professor of History and Accounting at the University of Southern California

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4 June 2019

PRIVACY Scholars Mette Birkedal Bruun and Lars Cyril Nørgaard will give papers at symposium at Frederiksborg Castle

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14 June - 15 June 2019

PRIVACY PhD Workshop on Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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12 Aug. - 23 Aug. 2019

PRIVACY Summer School: Privacy Challenged in Past, Present and Future

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27 Sept. 2019, 14:15

Old, Better, Best? Dealing With the Past in Late Antique Theology

Inaugural Lecture by Florian Wöller

2 Oct. 2019, 15

Privacy Challenge Seminar: Family Secrecy and Privacy

Every family has a skeleton in the closet, or so the saying goes. A dubious deed or a disgracing detail that is kept under wraps through more or less elaborate practices of secrecy. But what does this convey about the family and its relationship to society or the state?

14 Oct. 2019

Conspicuous Privacy: Charity in Versailles under Louis XIV

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31 Oct. 2019, 15:00-17:00

Public Lecture: Aspects of Privacy and Gender in Early Modern German Speaking Countries: Person, Spaces and Society

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18 Nov. 2019

SEMINAR: Privacy in Early Modern Dutch Art and Architecture: Interior and Space

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27 Nov. 2019

EXHIBITION: Tell me of Louis

Exhibition by PRIVACY Scholar Fabio Gigone
What was the iconographic spectrum surrounding Louis XIV in Versailles? What’s the consistency of his visual collection?

9 Dec. 2019, 15:00-17:00

PRIVACY Challenge Seminar: Information and Privacy in Ages of Surveillance

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13 Dec. 2019, 13:00-16:00

SEMINAR: Locating the Private in the Roman and Early Christian Worlds

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8 Jan. 2020, 15:00

PRIVACY LECTURE: The Rise of Architectural Glass and the History of Privacy

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31 Jan. 2020

SEMINAR: Perspectives on Privacy in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

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13 Feb. 2020, 15:00-17:00

PRIVACY SEMINAR: The Control of Space: Privacy, Gender, and Object in Early Modern England

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24 Feb. 2020

Exhibition: Space Oddity - The Architecture of the Rituals

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24 Mar. 2020, 15:00-17:00

POSTPONED: PUBLIC LECTURE: Surveillance, Conspiracy and Plot in Elizabethan England

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24 Apr. 2020, 14:00

Online Symposium: Practices of Privacy: Knowledge in the Making

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11 May 2020, 15:00-17:00

POSTPONED: PRIVACY LECTURE: The Notion 'private' in Humanist autobiographical texts

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14 May 2020, 14:00-16:00

POSTPONED: PRIVACY LECTURE: ‘Piercing the Private Sphere through Song’

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15 May 2020, 15:00-17:00

POSTPONED: PRIVACY Book Launch: ‘Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth’

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26 May 2020, 9:00

WORKSHOP: Transkribus - computerised text-transcriptions (with a little human help)

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17 June 2020, 13:00-15:00

Challenge Seminar with Senior Researcher Rikke Frank Jørgensen

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10 Aug. - 21 Aug. 2020

PRIVACY SUMMER SCHOOL ONLINE

Everybody agrees that privacy is essential, but no authoritative definition exists. 

22 Sept. 2020, 17:00

PRIVACY SEMINAR: Historical Notions of Privacy in Latin America

This series of seminars aims to address historical issues of privacy in Latin America, in Europe, and transregionally.

23 Sept. 2020, 15:00-18:00

PRIVACY Book Launch: ‘Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth’ Book by Anna Becker

PRIVACY Book Launch: ‘Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth’ Book by Anna Becker, Professor MSO at the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University.

1 Oct. 2020, 16:00-18:00

CANCELLED: PRIVACY Lecture by Michael Stolleis: The Separation of Public and Private Law in the Historical Dimension

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26 Oct. 2020, 14:00-16:00

Challenge Seminar: Privacy in an African Context

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10 Nov. 2020

PRIVACY SEMINAR: Historical Notions of Privacy in Latin America

17 Nov. 2020, 13:00-16:30

ONLINE PRIVACY SYMPOSIUM: Privacy and Private in Early Modern Jewish Life

PRIVACY Symposium exploring how Jewish individuals and Jewish communities in the early modern period, defined and related to their private space and privacy in relation to the public sphere.

26 Nov. 2020, 17:00

ONLINE PRIVACY SEMINAR: Historical Notions of Privacy in Latin America

This series of seminars aims to address historical issues of privacy in Latin America, in Europe, and transregionally.

7 Dec. 2020, 15:00-17:00

CANCELLED: PRIVACY LECTURE: Churches

PRIVACY LECTURE:  by Prof. Lee Palmer Wandel

10 Dec. - 12 Dec. 2020

ONLINE PRIVACY SYMPOSIUM: Privacy at Court? A Reassessment of the Public/Private Divide within European Courts (1400-1800)

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15 Dec. 2020, 15:00-17:00

CANCELLED ONLINE PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Jens Lundgren, Professor of infectious diseases

PRIVACY hosts two Challenge Seminars each semester on such topics as surveillance, privacy rights, medical ethics, work-life balance, and social cohesion.

18 Dec. 2020, 10:00-11:30

ONLINE PRIVACY LECTURE: Altona, 'little sister' of Hamburg: urbanisation, religious freedom and the emergence of privacy

On 18 December, Prof. Susanne Rau will provide a public Lecture titled:

 "Altona, 'little sister' of Hamburg: urbanisation, religious freedom and the emergence of privacy"

20 Jan. 2021, 13:00

ONLINE SEMINAR: PRIVACY AT THE DRESDEN COURT UNDER ANNA AND AUGUST (1541-86)

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22 Jan. 2021, 9:30-11:30

PRIVACY SEMINAR with Bernardo Sordi

Diritto pubblico e diritto privato. Una genealogia storica.

28 Jan. 2021, 17:00

ONLINE PRIVACY SEMINAR: Historical Notions of Privacy in Latin America

With Francisco de Paula de Souza Mendonça Júnior.

The Polygraphia of Johannes Trithemius: reflections on the relationship between esotericism and politics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

25 Feb. 2021, 17:00

ONLINE PRIVACY SEMINAR: Historical Notions of Privacy in Latin America with Assistant Professor Natalie Koerner

 The Professors’ Houses of Helmstedt: Gendering Privacy

25 Mar. 2021, 17:00

ONLINE PRIVACY SEMINAR: Historical Notions of Privacy in Latin America with Prof. Adriano Comissoli

Prof. Adriano Comissoli will present his work-in-progress on communication, confidence and friendship in the colonial context.

29 Apr. 2021, 17:00-19:00

ONLINE PRIVACY SEMINAR: Historical Notions of Privacy in Latin America with Prof. Mariana Thompson Flores

This series of seminars aims to address historical issues of privacy in Latin America, in Europe, and transregionally. Each month, one of the participants will present a work-in-progress, which will be circulated in advance and discussed online via zoom. This event is open, and scholars of all countries are welcome to join. Meetings will be held on the last Thursday of the month at 17:00 CEST/CET. Exceptions will be informed in advance. The language of the seminar is English. If necessary, questions in Portuguese or Spanish can be posted on the chat and will be translated.

27 May 2021, 17:00

ONLINE PRIVACY SEMINAR: Historical Notions of Privacy in Latin America with Dr Frank Ejby Poulsen

This series of seminars aims to address historical issues of privacy in Latin America, in Europe, and transregionally.

2 June - 4 June 2021

PRIVACY CONFERENCE: Early Modern Notions of Privacy and the Private

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24 June - 25 June 2021

Interdisciplinary Workshop: Sound, Privacy and Court Studies

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9 Aug. - 20 Aug. 2021

Privacy Summer School Online

Privacy challenged in past, present and future: a multi-disciplinary approach.

8 Sept. - 10 Sept. 2021

Early Modern French Conference: 'Public and Private'

King's College London and Centre for Privacy Studies is co-hosting the online Early Modern French Conference, 8 - 10 September 2021.

23 Sept. 2021, 18:00-20:00

Online lecture by Mette Birkedal Bruun: Privacy and the private as analytical categories in early modern studies

By Professor and Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun

24 Sept. 2021, 13:00-18:00

Research Workshop: Privacy and the Eastern European Courts, 1500-1800

Research workshop co-hosted by the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen and the Society for Court Studies—European Branch

12 Oct. 2021, 13:00-14:15

PRIVACY Book Launch: Le Grand Tour 1701-1703.

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15 Oct. - 16 Oct. 2021

PRIVACY Panel at the LERMA-QMCRLE Conference

Lived Religion in Europe 1500-1800: Individual and Communal Practice

25 Oct. - 27 Oct. 2021

ONLINE PRIVACY CONFERENCE: Privacy Studies in Global Perspective - Approaches and History

The conference is part of the Latin American Privacy Studies project funded by The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education, International Network Programme.

3 Nov. 2021, 15:00-17:00

Book Launch: Les maîtresses du roi

Flavie Leroux is a research associate at the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles and coordinator of the programme “Court identities and the myth of Versailles in Europe: perception, adherence and rejection (18th-19th centuries).

3 Nov. 2021, 15:00-17:00

PRIVACY Book Launch: Les maîtresses du roi

Flavie Leroux is a research associate at the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles and coordinator of the programme “Court identities and the myth of Versailles in Europe: perception, adherence and rejection (18th-19th centuries).

8 Nov. - 9 Nov. 2021

ONLINE WORKSHOP: Animal / Privacy

A COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP between

CENTRE FOR PRIVACY STUDIES (University of Copenhagen) AND KENT ANIMAL HUMANITIES NETWORK (University of Kent)

3 Dec. 2021, 16:00-17:00

PRIVACY Book Launch: Early Modern Privacy - Sources and Approaches

The volume is part of the Brill Series: Intersections, Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture

Early Modern Privacy - Sources and Approaches editors: Michaël Green, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, and Mette Birkedal Bruun

3 Feb. 2022, 15:00

PRIVACY Book Launch: Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia

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15 Feb. 2022, 16:00

PRIVACY Seminar: ALCHEMY AND MINING IN EARLY MODERN SAXONY Keeping Knowledge and Resources Private

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23 Feb. 2022, 15:00-17:00

PRIVACY Seminar with Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir: India’s Creolising Christians: Public Culture and Private Worlds

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21 Apr. 2022, 10:20-16:00

PRIVACY Seminar: Privacy and Marriage in the Early Modern Period

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3 May 2022, 13:00-15:00

PRIVACY Seminar with Professor Maria José Goulão

With Professor Maria José Goulão

“The effigial tombs of Pedro I and Inês de Castro at Alcobaça (c. 1360-67): building up a narrative of female virtue, from private biography to public display.”

1 Sept. - 2 Sept. 2022

International Symposium ‘The Public and the Private in Early Modern Contexts: Comparative Perspectives’

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15 Sept. - 16 Sept. 2022

Noise, Silence, and Privacy - An Interdisciplinary Workshop

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6 Oct. - 7 Oct. 2022

PRIVACY Symposium: Privacy and Colonialism

Privacy and Colonialism will interrogate privacy in places where indigenous and native peoples were displaced from their land for the benefit of European empires.

10 Oct. 2022, 13:15

Invitation to PhD defence

Anni Haahr Henriksen will defend her PhD thesis:

"The Private Mind in Elizabethan England. Representations of the Mind in Literary, Political, Religious, and Legal Discourse"

14 Oct. 2022, 14:00-16:00

PRIVACY Lecture by Prof. Karl Enenkel: The Discovery of Cicero Private and its Impact on Petrarch

The Discovery of Cicero Private and its Impact on Petrarch

10 Nov. - 11 Nov. 2022

STAY HOME - New perspectives on the home

International Conference on the Home

14 Nov. - 15 Nov. 2022

SEMINAR: PRIVACY, SECRECY, & ESOTERICISM

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24 Nov. 2022, 9:00-17:30

Private Life in the English Country House: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

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30 Nov. - 2 Dec. 2022

SYMPOSIUM: Practices of Privacy: Vestiges of Dialogue and its Places

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12 Dec. 2022, 13:30-18:00

Seminar: Colonisation, Indigenous peoples, and the denial of privacy

In-person seminar at the Centre for Privacy Studies

13 Jan. 2023, 13:15

Invitation to PhD defence: Bastian Felter Vaucanson

Bastian Felter Vaucanson will defend his PhD thesis: “La conversation éternelle. L’intimité spirituelle dans la correspondance Guyon-Fénelon”

English title: “The Eternal Conversation: Spiritual Intimacy in the Correspondence between Guyon and Fénelon”

7 Feb. 2023, 13

Guest Lecture by Prof. Gisela Drossbach: Marriage in Church Law in England at the end of the 12th Century

In this lecture Prof. Gisela Drossbach will demonstrate that the relationship between church and state in the Anglo-Norman realm favoured the extension of papal legal culture from the continent to England in the 12^th century.

17 Apr. 2023, 13:00-15:00

PRIVACY Lecture: Privacy and Concurrence of Norms in the ‚Age of Ambiguity‘

By Professor Hillard von Thiessen 

20 Apr. - 21 Apr. 2023

Conference: Privacy Matters. How Interiors make and break our Cities

This conference will examine links between cities, the built environment, the private and the public, the interior and the exterior, and between social and political processes and urban transformation over two days of talks.

1 May 2023, 13:00-15:00

PRIVACY Lecture: From private to public: how the earliest laws defined justice

With Fernanda Pirie, Professor of the Anthropology of Law, University of Oxford

25 May 2023, 15:00-17:00

Guest lecture by Professor Sarah Igo

Andrew Jackson Chair in American History, Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science; Professor of Sociology; Dean of Strategic Initiatives, College of Arts and Science

8 June - 9 June 2023

Workshop: Privacy and Space – Theory and Practice

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13 June 2023, 13:00-17:00

PhD Defense: States of Proximity – Privacy under Louis XIV in Versailles

Fabio Gigone defends his dissertation

27 June 2023, 13:00-15:00

Protestant Reformation of Law in France and the Establishment of the Modern State

Privacy Lecture by Professor Mathias Schmoeckel

11 Aug. 2023, 15:00-17:00

PRIVACY Book launch: Danish-British Consort Portraiture

Centre for Privacy Studies is proud to announce and celebrate the new book Danish-British Consort Portraiture by PRIVACY guest researcher Sara Ayres.

22 Sept. 2023, 13:00-15:00

Recruitment Seminar for Architecture PhD scholarship at PRIVACY

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27 Sept. 2023, 13:00-16:00

Seminar: Researching Historical Privacy in Latin America

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29 Sept. 2023, 10:00-16:30

Recruitment seminars for two PhD positions

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12 Oct. - 13 Oct. 2023

PRIVACY AND DEATH: Past and Present

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27 Oct. 2023, 13:15-17:00

Invitation to PhD defence: Nicolaus Selnecker's Psalterbuch, 1563-1623. Addressing the Public – Voicing the Private

PhD defence by Søren Frank Jensen

1 Dec. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Challenge seminar: Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: Causes for Concern

Challenge seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz. 

9 Feb. 2024, 13:15

Inaugural Lecture by newly appointed PRIVACY Associate Professor Lars Cyril Nørgaard

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3 Apr. 2024, 8:30-17:00

PAST PRIVACY MATTERS: How to study it and why

PRIVACY seminar at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) in Brazil.

26 Apr. 2024, 15:00-16:30

PRIVACY Book launch

Please join us in celebrating the release of four new PRIVACY book titles.

7 May 2024, 9:00-12:00

Seminar: Privacy and Productivity at Home

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7 May 2024, 14:00-16:00

PRIVACY Seminar: Anticlerical Legacies at PRIVACY

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19 June 2024, 10:00-12:00

SEMINAR: Researching Privacy through History of Emotions. Paratexts in Early Modern Italy

Semianr with Jelena Bakić, MSCA Seal of Excellence Research Fellow, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

12 Sept. 2024, 15:15-17:00

Semester Start Lecture

Building of the Cape Coast Castle and the Entangled Histories of Religion, Memory, and Privacy, 1653 – 1957

18 Sept. 2024, 13:00-15:00

Privacy in the process of early modern collective judging. Theoretical foundations and empirical perspectives

 

Privacy in the process of early modern collective judging.

Theoretical foundations and empirical perspectives

19 Sept. - 20 Sept. 2024

Open Workshop Sessions: Building Early Moderne Privacy

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25 Sept. 2024, 15:00-17:00

PRIVACY Challenge Seminar: The digital transformation impact on the European regulatory approach to privacy

with Law Professor Hanne Marie Motzfeldt 

4 Oct. 2024

Online workshop: Intimacy and Spirituality in New France/Intimité et spiritualité en Nouvelle France

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12 Nov. 2024, 14:00-16:00

Privacy in Ephemeral Borders

Privacy and the dynamics of temporary urban faces and edges in artistic and architectural context.

26 Nov. 2024, 14:00-16:00

PRIVACY Challenge Seminar: privacy and the private in contemporary African communities and emerging technologies

Mercy King’ori: Evolution of privacy and the private in contemporary African Communities

Mando Rachovitsa: Emerging technologies hacking and manipulating individuals’ autonomy? Whither human rights law?

 

12 Dec. 2024, 17:30

Live interview with Mette Birkedal Bruun: Salvation vs. health: The eternal pursuit of the flawless life

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun in a live interview at Copenhagen University Library Fiolstræde.

7 Apr. 2025, 15:00-17:00

Book launch: Privacy in Early Modern Saxony - Perspectives on Architecture, Culture, Health, Law, and Religion

Edited by Natacha Klein Käfer, Paolo Astorri, Søren Frank Jensen, Natalie Patricia Körner, and Mette Birkedal Bruun

23 May 2025, 14:45-15:30

KU Festival Panel: Decolonizing knowledge – who gets to produce, own, and share knowledge?

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5 June 2025, 16:00-17:30

Danish Constitution Day Workshop: Fighting for Privacy

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11 June 2025, 13:00-15:00

PRIVACY Challenge seminar: Implementing eIDAS2 and the European Digital Identity Wallet in Denmark

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18 June 2025, 15:00-17:00

Book launch: Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life

New book by Tiffany Jenkins.

25 June 2025, 13:00-15:00

Seminar with Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere: Costa Rica, two Danish slave ships and the rewriting of history

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