Researches at The Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY)

PRIVACY > Participants

Core Scholars
	Mette Birkedal Bruun Director of PRIVACY, Professor of Church History, University of Copenhagen, DK. My research focuses on religious dimensions of the dynamic between withdrawal from the world and engagement with the world. I have worked extensively on medieval and Early Modern monasticism as well as on the interaction between monastic and lay devotion in Early Modern France. Email: mbb@teol.ku.dk Room: 5C.0.21
	Charlotte Christensen-Nugues Senior Lecturer in History of Ideas & Sciences, University of Lund, SE. My research focuses on marriage and family in medieval and Early Modern legal, religious and political thought. I have analysed areas of conflict and tension between individual and society, private and public, and their historical evolvement. Email: Charlotte.Christensen@kultur.lu.se Room: 5C.0.14
	Peter Thule Kristensen Professor of Spatial Design, The School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservations (KADK), Copenhagen, DK. My field of research lies within History of Architecture and Interior. The Masters Programme Spatial Design at Institute of Architecture and Design has ca. 60 international students of architecture and design and a focus on spatial design from among others, a historical, anthropological and tectonic/material-based point of view. Email: pthul@kadk.dk Room: 5C.0.14
	Helle Vogt Professor of Legal History, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, DK. My research focuses on comparative aspects of Nordic law and legal practice in the medieval and Early Modern Age. My research has led to new insights regarding penal laws, kinship, the construction of family and the interaction with religious norms and learned law. Email: helle.vogt@jur.ku.dk Room: 5C.0.24
	Jill Bepler Head of Department, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, DE. My research focuses on courtly education as well as dynastic women and their libraries in the 17th century. I also study aristocratic collecting and Early Modern funerary publications. Email: bepler@hab.de
	Annabel Brett Reader in History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge, UK. I am a specialist in the history of political thought from the late middle ages to the mid-seventeenth century. My research includes the scholastic, humanist and Protestant natural law traditions, political Aristotelianism, and early-modern understandings of international law. Email: asb21@cam.ac.uk
	Philippe Cocatre-Zilgien Professor of Legal History, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, FR. My research focuses on Roman Law. Email: pccz@wanadoo.fr
	Maarten Delbeke Professor of History and Theory of Architecture, ETH, Zurich, CH. My research focuses on the history of architectural theory from the Early Modern period up to the present. I am particularly interested in how architecture is conceived as a medium, and how this conception informs the legitimation of architecture as a cultural practice. Email: maarten.delbeke@gta.arch.ethz.ch

Scientific Staff
	Anna Becker MPhil and PhD in The History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge My research focuses on notions of the body and embodiment in the history of political thought; questions of secrecy, intimacy, obsession and desires in moral and political theory and in early modern culture; investigating the shifting and porous public/private divide. Email: Room: 5C.0.18
	Michaël Green PhD in Religious studies, University of Groningen. My research lies within religious history and the history of education and networks. I am focusing on the religious element of privacy during the early modern period, and especially on different religious groups within PRIVACY’s case studies. For my research, my sources will be books, correspondences and sermons as well as diaries. Email: mgr@teol.ku.dk Room: 5C.0.22
	Anni Haahr Henriksen Cand.mag, UCPH. MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature, University of Cambridge. My research focuses on the idea of silence as both a private inward space and a possible public threat. In my research, I explore the paradoxical notions of privacy in the acts of speech and non-speech, mapping the development of notions of privacy during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Email: ahh@teol.ku.dk Room: 5C.0.19
	Pernille Ulla Knudsen Mag.art., UCPH. PhD in Legal Science, UCPH. My research focuses on how the contrast between private and public manifests itself in legislation and case law. Email: pernille.ulla.knudsen@jur.ku.dk Room: 5C.0.22
	Lars Cyril Nørgaard Cand.teol., UCPH. PhD in Church History, UCPH. Visiting Scholar, Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham. Visiting Scholar, Centre Roland Mousnier, Sorbonne IV, Paris. Postdoc, Faculty of Theology, UCPH. My research centres on the paradoxes of religious withdrawal from the world. I have worked extensively on lay devotion in Early Modern Europe and take specific interest in its material underpinnings. Email: lan@teol.ku.dk
	Natália da Silva Perez BFA in Theatre and Francophone Literature. MA in Performing Arts Studies. PhD, The University of Kent and Freie Universität Berlin. My research focuses on women’s sexuality, fertility and contraception in the early modern period. I am especially interested in the experiences of women of lower social status. In my research, I will focus on how women’s ability to work (or their access to other modes of subsistence) might have been influenced by unwanted pregnancies, by attempts at avoiding pregnancies, and by terminating them. Email: nsp@teol.ku.dk Room: 5C.0.16