Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun in the podcast ‘Videnskab fra vilde hjerner’
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. Mette is interviewed about her research in religious withdrawal and about the organization and research of Centre for Privacy Studies. Listen to the podcast (in Danish) or read the translated transcript here to find out more about our interdisciplinary research on privacy and the private. The interview deals with Mette’s research in religious withdrawal from the world by 17th Century French monks, different sources and analyses of privacy and boundaries in the Early Modern period, and the interdisciplinary organization and collaboration of Centre for Privacy Studies.
Mette: “So, the fact that people, who don’t have anywhere to live, also don’t have a lot of privacy, that’s something we can also recognize from our own time. If you are to receive benefits from the state, then you also have to give up some privacy. So that’s something we see in our own historic period: it is possible to get some help, but that then requires of you to give people access to all information about yourself.”