News 2020 archive

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS JULY 31, 2021 Online Workshop: 9 November 2021.

Privacy challenged in past, present and future: a multi-disciplinary approach 9 - 20 August 2020 Classes: Monday-Friday, 5-6 hours each day: synchronous modules will be planned when we know the students' time zones…

What happens when present-day privacy dilemmas meet a historical privacy angle? 14th International Computer, Privacy & Data Protection Conference (CPDP)

In 2020 we had the great pleasure of a three-month visit of Prof. Lee Palmer Wandel.

The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education, International Network Programme, has awarded a generous grant to the PRIVACY project ‘Historical Notions of Privacy in Latin America.’

Michael Vielsted is our new Intern at the Centre for Privacy Studies. As an intern, Michael is working to broaden his skillset and expand his capabilities. This means that he is involved in several projects: transcribin…

Congratulations to Kathrine Hyldgaard Petersen, master student at the Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University.

PRIVACY Postdoctoral Researcher Michaël Green will give a guest lecture at the Low Countries Historical Seminar at the University College London in collaboration with Institute for Historical Research on 23 November…

New Visiting Professor at PRIVACY - Lee Palmer Wandel

Welcome to Associate Professor Christine Jeanneret and Postdoctoral Researcher Sanne Maekelberg.

We are happy to announce that PRIVACY Postdoc Dustin Neighbors has established the new European branch of the Society for Court Studies and cultivated an academic partnership between PRIVACY and the Society for Court…

On 31 July 2020 it was announced that PRIVACY researcher, Michaël Green has been elected as fellow at the Royal Historical Society (United Kingdom), in recognition of his “original contribution to historical…

Early Modern Privacy? Organizer: Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen (www.teol.ku.dk/privacy) (Young Woman Peeling Apples, Nicolaes Maes) The call is now closed. Privacy is hardly a hallmark of Early…

Title: Grotius’s Contract Theory in the Works of His German Commentators: First Explorations Abstract Due to its enormous importance, Grotius’s contract doctrine has been extensively investigated by legal historians.…

In a jointly written article, Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun, Michaël Green and Lars Cyril Nørgaard investigate the epistolary network that surrounded the education of the future Dutch Stadtholders.The article,…

PRIVACY Director Mette Birkedal Bruun receives 6.1 million DKK from the Carlsberg Foundation to conduct research into the home during and after the corona crisis.

The Corona-crisis forced many to stay home in March, but this is not the first time in history people have been isolated in their homes. In his essay, Peter Thule Kristensen gives a review of how the relationship betwee…

Independent Research Fund Denmark has generously funded Christine Jeanneret Wernli’s project SOUND: Soundscapes of Rosenborg.

Peter Thule Kristensen is interviewed about Privacy, Architecture and the research conducted at the Centre for Privacy Studies. Find the interview with Peter Thule Kristensen here.

Paolo has been awarded the RefoRC Book Award 2020 for his book: Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720). The RefoRC Book Award is presented annually for publications related to Early…

Postdoctoral Researcher Frank Ejby Poulsen has collected three PRIVACY blog posts focusing on the current pandemic. In this piece, Frank Ejby Poulsen conveys how Privacy Studies Reveal Historical Research as “Essentia…

Due to the pandemic and the government imposed safety measures such as self-isolation, private homes have been transformed into workplaces and home schools. In the interview, Mette Birkedal Bruun and Peter Thule…

In the radio program, (from 5 April 2020) Prof. Mette Birkedal Bruun reflects on historical cases such as the plague in England under Queen Elizabeth I and sees it in the light of the present-day COVID-19 crisis. During…

Prof. Mette Birkedal Bruun has been appointed as one of four new members of The Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy.

Congratulations to our PRIVACY PhD Bastian Felter Vaucanson. Bastian has been awarded the prestigious Elite Research Travel Grant. The grant aims to provide selected talented PhD students with the means to perform…

We are happy to welcome Sophie Battel as our guest researcher. Sophie Battel has a PhD from Cardiff University and is currently based at the University Exerter, where she is a research assistant. I am working on …

We are happy to welcome Sara Ayres as our guest researcher. Sara Ayres is here on a travel grant awarded by the Paul Mellon Centre to study the reception of William Hogarth's prints in Denmark, specifically their…