1 August 2018

New PhD employee: Bastian Vaucanson

Bastian Vaucanson is employed as PhD at Centre for Privacy Studies, starting 15 August 2018.

Bastian’s main research area at PRIVACY will be to investigate notions – and absence – of privacy in the city of Versailles during the last third of the reign of Louis XIV (1682-1715). He will examine how the devotional ideal of interiority plays out in François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon’s (1651-1715) tutoring of Le petit dauphin, Louis de France, duc de Bourgogne (1682-1712) in the years 1689-99. Using the dauphin as a prism brings to the fore tensions inherent in the notion of privacy .

Bastian’s studies have consistently revolved around the field of literature and theology with a strong focus on the early modern period – mainly seventeenth-century France and, to a lesser extent, eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway.

Bastian is cand.theol. from UCPH and has been a visiting student at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Cambridge University.

We are looking forward to working with Bastian at Centre for Privacy Studies.