News 2024 Archive

2024 has been extremely rewarding. PRIVACY scholars undertake in-depth historical research. This research is tested in our cross-disciplinary research environment and at international conferences and workshops,…

Mando Rachovista and Mercy King'ori alongside center director Mette Birkedal Bruun at the Privacy Challenge Seminar At the end of November we had the pleasure of welcoming two guest researchers to the center for a…

NEW BOOK: Privacy in Early Modern Saxony - Perspectives on Architecture, Culture, Health, Law, and Religion

The HEALTH & SCIENCE Theme at the Centre for Privacy Studies is looking for an intern for the spring semester of 2025

This month we welcomed Bárbara Gonçalves Textor as a guest scholar to the Centre for Privacy Studies. Textor is a PhD candidate at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Her research addresses gender relations, through…

On October 1st, Hui-Yi Yang's PhD project officially began. Yang has been at the Centre for Privacy studies for several months as a guest researcher, conducting her research in architectural history, but it was not…

The last three episodes of Privacy Studies Podcast season 5 ‘Privacy and Death’ have been released. Listen to the new episodes on our website, where you will also find the first nine episodes of this season as well as…

Bastian Felter Vaucanson will be giving an invited lecture at the seminary of the Groupe de recherche en histoire des sensibilités at the University of Montréal on 14 November 2024. His lecture will address the…

On October 8, Dustin Neighbors, former postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Privacy Studies, gave a lecture at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. The lecture was titled "Notions of Privacy and the Private at…

Assistant Professor Natacha Klein Käfer is leading the HEALTH theme at the Centre for Privacy Studies, and she is a board member of the University of Copenhagen School of Global Health. In this interview from the Schoo…

A new blog post on home and healthcare has been published at the PRIVACY blog. In the blog post, centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun and editor, Emma Klakk reflect on the cross-pollination of ideas and perspectives…

On Thursday 12 September, Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun was among the performers at the open-air event BIBLIOTEKSHAVEN LIVE Garden at the Library in the city centre. Mette Birkedal Bruun. Credit: Flemming Bo…

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun was the Chair of the Carlsberg Foundation Prize Committee which selected the two candidates for this year’s Carlsberg Foundation Research Prizes. The year the Carlsberg Foundation’s…

This month, we have welcomed Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah to the University of Copenhagen, where he will hold the position of Assistant Professor in African Studies at Centre for Privacy Studies, as well as at the…

Picture from Arashiyama Yusai-tei 嵐山祐斎亭, Kyoto © Carmen García Sánchez We are thrilled to announce that Carmen García Sánchez, affiliated scholar at the Centre for Privacy Studies, has been awarded a scholarship to…

Jelena Bakic In June we had the pleasure of welcoming Jelena Bakic to the centre. Jelena is a researcher at the Free University of Bolzano and affiliated with the University of Porto, Transdisciplinary Research Center…

The June edition of Taiwan Architecture Magazine, which is curated by Centre for Privacy Studies guest researcher Hui-Yi Yang as a guest editor, was released on June 1st. This edition focuses on House Museums; spaces…

The organizers of the Computer, Privacy, Data Protection Conference (CPDP.ai) had invited PRIVACY to host a workshop at this year’s conference in Brussels May 21-24. The delegation from PRIVACY included Centre Directo…

Gezicht op huizen in Delft, bekend als 'Het straatje' Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2025 will be held in Boston 20-22 March. Background Privacy is hardly a hallmark of…

Our Postdoctoral Researcher, Søren Frank Jensen, will start his project MINES, OCEANS, COMETS. NATURAL HAZARDS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AGENCY AND COMMUNAL RESPONSIBILITY IN RELIGIOUS TEXTS (1550–1650) in November 2024.

Last week, PhD Fellow at Centre for Privacy Studies Viktor Wretström was in Stockholm to participate in the yearly meeting of Föreningen Svenska Rominstitutets Vänner [The Association for Friends of the Swedish Institut…

In April we were happy to welcome our new guest researcher Javier Sadarangani Leiva to the Centre for Privacy Studies! Javier is PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg, member of the Ibero-American Society for the…

Together with colleagues Fabio Colonnese and Robin Schaeverbeke, Nuno Grancho edited the book Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design and wrote the introduction.

From March 21-23, 2024, a delegation from PRIVACY attended the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) annual conference in Chicago. As an associate organization of RSA, PRIVACY organized four sessions with fifteen…

Last month Centre for Privacy Studies welcomed Alexander M. K. Mkandawire as new PhD Fellow. Alexander received his master's degree in theology just earlier this year, here at University of Copenhagen. Alexander's PhD…

With support from DANIDA, a new project based at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen is investigating how poorer residents in different parts of Ghana’s second largest city, Kumasi, access clea…

With support from DANIDA, a new project based at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen is investigating how poorer residents in different parts of Ghana’s second largest city, Kumasi, access clea…

This spring we are happy to welcome Hui-Yi Yang as guest researcher at the center. Hui-Yi has a master's degree in Spatial Design from the Royal Danish Academy– Architecture, Design, Conservation (KADK). At PRIVACY, he…

New PRIVACY open access book

The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg has awarded PRIVACY Scholar Sari Nauman the honourable Birger Karlsson’s Science Prize 2023.

The first episodes of the newest and fifth season of the centre’s very own Privacy Studies Podcast have been published. Listen to the podcast here on our website. The new season follows the discussions of the symposium…

Our colleague Fabio Gigone received a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship. We have interviewed him about his new project. Fabio Gigone You recently successfully defended your PhD at the Centre fo…

Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz now available.

Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History is edited by PRIVACY Assistant Professor Natacha Klein Käfer and contains contributions by PRIVACY scholars.