Researchers from University of Łódź presenting on privacy in egodocumental sources
On January 28, 2026, researchers from the University of Łódź visited the Centre for Privacy Studies to host a seminar on privacy in egodocumental sources. The seminar was conducted by Michaël Green (former scholar at Centre for Privacy Studies), Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik, Aneta Pawłowska, and Adam Sitarek. The seminar explored the concept of privacy as reflected in egodocumental sources, including diaries, memoirs, and autobiographical writings, analysing privacy as the articulation, negotiation, and transformation of private experience, self-representation, and personal space within such materials.
The researchers took an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of egodocuments from four complementary disciplinary perspectives: history, art history, literary studies, and historical topography. Particular attention was paid to the ways in which notions of privacy emerge in different cultural, social, and spatial contexts. The seminar drew on sources originating from various parts of Europe and spanning the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, allowing for both comparative and diachronic analysis.
Following research presentations interdisciplinary discussions between the visiting scholars and the scholars of Centre for Privacy Studies spurred fruitful perspectives and shared reflection on privacy in egodocuments and beyond.
The seminar was funded by the IDUB Grant for Interdisciplinarity at the University of Łódź.