News 2023 Archive

The Journal of Modern African Studies is published by Cambridge University Press.

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun was recently a guest in the Danish podcast Videnskab fra vilde hjerner (Science from Wild Minds) hosted by Professor of astrophysics at University of Copenhagen, Anja C. Andersen.…

Paolo Astorri publishes chapter in Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law titled "Christianity and Contract Law"

Mette Birkedal Bruun gave the lecture entitled: From Monks to GDPR

The collaboration between the Centre for Privacy Studies and the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria brought a Brazilian research delegation to the Centre for Privacy Studies.

This year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture opened in May and is running until the end of November. On October 12 archaeologist and postdoctoral researcher at PRIVACY, Asta Mønsted contributed to a workshop in the Nordi…

Nuno Grancho presented his research at the Conference of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) that took place at Harvard, MIT and Brown Universities, USA.

Postdoctoral researcher at Centre for Privacy Studies, Sanne Maekelberg recently started a new job at KU Leuven. For the past three years, Sanne has worked at PRIVACY and enriched us with her expertise in architectural…

Peter Thule Kristensen, core scholar at Centre for Privacy Studies and professor at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation, is the editor of a new impressive monograph about the life and work of…

We are happy to welcome our newest guest researcher Taís Giacomini Tomazi Taís has a degree in History from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), a master's degree in History from the Post Graduate Program of…

Ineke Huysman and former Privacy researcher and colleague Michael Green edited the book. The book contains PRIVACY contributions by Sanne Maekelberg, Natacha Klein Käfer, Jelena Bakić and Michael Green.

Postdoctoral researcher in prehistoric archaeology at Centre for Privacy Studies, Asta Mønsted, presented at a seminar at the Dark Sky Festival in Tårup, Denmark, in the beginning of September 2023. Asta is specialized…

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Church History, Legal…

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Church History, Legal…

This week, we are happy to welcome Tamara Bulicic Auspont to the Centre for Privacy Studies. Tamara is a musicologist and MA student in Advanced Migration Studies at UCPH. She will intern on Christine Jeannerets SOUND…

Art historian and PRIVACY scholar Oskar Jacek Rojewski has guest edited the newest volume of The Court Historian. We sat down with Oskar to discuss the benefits of bringing together privacy and court studies. Oskar…

“Woman at the Governor’s house, Tranquebar, India, 2023” © Nuno Grancho About the photo: The photo brings together practices and negotiations of privacy in the architectural and urban space of the Danish colonial city…

Mette Birkedal Bruun and Sarah Igo Professor of History at Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science, Sarah Igo visited Centre for Privacy Studies in May 2023. She gave a lecture on the U.S. Social Security number and ho…

The newly launched app Hidden Copenhagen takes you on an innovative living history trail through Copenhagen. The trail tells a powerful story of murder, execution and anatomical dissection in the seventeenth century.…

In this podcast, Michael Green, University of Lodz, Faculty of Philosophy and History, explores how historians build their careers, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges. What…

On Tuesday, June 13th, Fabio Gigone successfully defended his PhD dissertation "States of Proximity – Privacy under Louis XIV in Versailles". The defence took place at the Royal Danish Academy, as the research had been …

Congratulations to our colleague Bastian Felter Vaucanson.

We proudly announce that our special PRIVACY issue, “Creation, Control, Communication: A Historical Appraisal of Privacy in Knowledge Production” has been published. The issue is edited by PRIVACY researchers Natália…

The second article of the 2023 issue can now be accessed on tidsskrift.dk The article is titled Belonging to the Individual or the Collective? The Urban Residence as a Public/Private Building in Renaissance Italy…

Hidden Copenhagen, the seventh app in the Hidden Cities collection, is developed as a collaboration between the University of Exeter’s Hidden Cities team and historians and archaeologists from the Centre for Privacy…

The Centre for Privacy Studies is happy to welcome our newest postdoctoral reseacher Asta Mønsted. Asta is a Danish-Greenlandic archaeologist. Asta was born and raised in Uummannaq, Greenland, and later educated as a…

Call for Papers on Early Modern privacy for The Renaissance Society of America Conference 21-23 March, 2024 in Chicago Organizer: Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen (PRIVACY) (www.teol.ku.dk/privacy)

Nuno Grancho is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Centre for Privacy Studies. He holds a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from University of Coimbra. Nuno organised the conference: Privacy Matters. How Interiors make…

This symposium will explore the relationships we construct between death and privacy in the past and in the present.

Sanne Maekelberg and Peter Thule Kristensen behind new article Unfinished Business? Informal Privacy and the Private at the Perpetual Construction Site of the First Christiansborg Palace (1740-1794) in the journal…

In March, researchers from the Centre for Privacy Studies, and our DATA+ project PRIVACY Black&White, Natacha Klein Käfer (history of healing, Centre for Privacy Studies), Sanne Maekelberg (history of architecture,…

Cordial congratulations to Frank Ejby Poulsen who has won the María Zambrano Grant for the attraction of international talents (€99.500) at the University King Juan Carlos. Frank will carry the project: ‘Oikosmos–El…

Welcome to Davide M. Parrilli

PRIVACY-scholars Johannes Ljungberg and Sari Nauman have been awarded a generous grant from Nordforsk to conduct a series of exploratory workshops on the subject of Nordic Peace, c. 1721–1830.

On Friday January 13 2023, PhD Student at Centre for Privacy Studies, Bastian Felter Vaucanson successfully defended his PhD thesis, “La conversation éternelle. L’intimité spirituelle dans la correspondence…