LATIN AMERICAN PRIVACY STUDIES

Created in 2020 as a collaboration between the Centre for Privacy Studies and the History Graduate Program of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Latin American Privacy Studies is a research group focused on the history of privacy in Latin America and its global connections. Participants met up monthly to discuss works-in-progress and organize events to explore privacy as a research catalyst. LAPS is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation via the Centre for Privacy Studies and received the support of the International Networking Program grant from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. More information can be found on the LAPS website.

 

Seminar Past Privacy Matters: How to Study It and Why?: Seminar at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria with presentations by specialists in historical privacy studies. Lectures by Natacha Klein Käfer, Johannes Ljungberg, Jelena Bakic, and Liam Benison (April 3, 2024).

Seminar Series “Historical Notions of Privacy in Latin America”: This series of seminars aimed to address historical issues of privacy in Latin America, in Europe, and transregionally. Each month, one of the participants presented a work-in-progress, which was circulated in advance and discussed online via zoom. This event was open, and scholars across the globe joined the discussion. Meetings were held on the last Thursday of each month at 17:00 CEST/CET until late 2021. The language of the seminar was English and Portuguese, with translations when necessary.

Conference “Privacy in Global Perspectives: Approaches and History” – Online, October 25-27, 2021: The conference counted with scholars from Latin America and Europe. The conference programme can be found here.

Online Lectures:

  • “Privacy and the private as analytical categories in early modern studies” by Prof Mette Birkedal Bruun on September 23, 2021, hosted by Universidade Federal de Santa Maria;
  • “Privacidade e segredos alquímicos em laboratórios do século XVI: estratégias, espaços e políticas dinásticas” by Natacha Klein Käfer on Novemeber 17, 2021, hosted by Universidade Estadual do Ceará.

In-Person Lectures: “Rituals, Prayers, and Blessings: Brazilian folk healing practices from a global historical perspective” by Natacha Klein Käfer at the Netværk for Latinamerikastudier Seminario Permanente, Copenhagen (March 6, 2024).

Conference Participations:

  • Presentation “Latin American Mines and the Transformation of Alchemical Secrets in Early Modern Knowledge Networks” by Natacha Klein Käfer at the History of Knowledge Conference, University of Porto (November 23, 2023).
  • Panel “Early Modern Privacy in Latin America: Connections and Connotations” at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in San Juan with Adriano Comissoli, Mariana Flores, and Natacha Klein Käfer (9-11 March 2023).

 

MEMBERS: Natacha Klein Käfer (organizer), Mette Birkedal Bruun, Beatriz Teixeira Weber, Hugo André Flores Fernandes Araújo, Adriano Comissoli, Mariana Flores da Cunha Thompson Flores Assis, Francisco de Paula de Souza Mendonça Júnior, José Martinho Rodrigues Remedi, Natália da Silva Perez, Johannes Ljungberg, Jelena Bakic, Liam Benison, Taís Giacomini Tomazi, Bárbara Textor.