PRIVACY Postdoc Dustin Neighbors cultivates new partnership and establishes new initiative
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 Studies.
The Society for Court Studies was founded in London in September 1995 with the aim of stimulating and co-ordinating the study of royal and princely courts and households from antiquity to the present. With close to 400 members and a significant social media presence, the Society organises regular seminars and conferences in London throughout the year. As the leading academic society within the field of court studies, the Society also publishes (in association with Taylor and Francis) The Court Historian, consisting of over twenty years of peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary scholarship on court studies.
Given that PRIVACY’s research focus rests with eleven site-based case studies, of which several royal and princely courts are integral parts of the research, Dustin approached the Society’s Executive Committee, in December 2019, about establishing a European branch. The aim of the European branch was to “represent and be a voice for scholars and academic institutions in mainland Europe” and serving “to extend the impact and presence of the Society for Court Studies.” Over the proceeding months, Dustin produced the commissioning documents to establish the European branch (with the assistance of a few members of the Executive Committee). The commissioning documents were presented before the Executive Committee on 6 July 2020 and unanimously approved. Dustin will serve as both chair of the European branch committee and as a member of the Executive Committee in London.
The European Committee consist of five academics who are based in mainland Europe, of which the vice-chairman is PRIVACY Assistant Professor Lars Cyril Nørgaard. The European branch will be based at PRIVACY during the duration of Dustin’s affiliation.
In establishing the European branch, Dustin has cultivated a partnership between PRIVACY and the Society to produce the symposium “Privacy at Court?: A Reassessment of the Public/Private Divide within European Courts, 1400-1800”. Hosted by PRIVACY at the University of Copenhagen, the symposium will take place on 10 – 12 December 2020. The symposium will be the inaugural event for the European branch of the Society and feature a launch celebration.
PRIVACY congratulates Dustin and welcomes the European branch of the Society for Court Studies.
For more information about the Society for Court Studies and the European branch, visit their website: www.courtstudies.org
For more information or to register for the “Privacy at Court” symposium, visit our PRIVACY website