SYMPOSIUM: Privacy before Privacy Law: Law and Humanities in Dialogue for a Digital Age (Copenhagen: Faculty of Theology/Centre for Privacy Studies, 25-26 JUN 2026)

 

A symposium was held at Copenhagen University on 25 and 26 June. 

Day 1: Thursday 25^th June

Location: Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Karen Blixens Plads, 16, 2300 København S, Room: 6B.1.62

8.30 – 9.00	REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE Centre for Privacy Studies
9.00 – 9.30	OPENING REMARKS   Introducing the Centre for Privacy Studies Mette Birkedal Bruun, University of Copenhagen   Introducing the Symposium  Paolo Astorri & Patrick O’Callaghan
9.30 – 11.00	SESSION I — PRIVACY IN MEDIEVAL AND REINASSANCE IMAGINATIONS Chair: Bastian Felter Vaucanson, University of Copenhagen Privacy as a Condition of Cognitive Liberty in Petrarch’s Writings   Patrick O’Callaghan, University College Cork The Private Autonomous Mind: Female Strategies of Inward Agency in Shakespeare’s Roman tale The Rape of Lucrece Anni Haahr Henriksen, Kaberghus, Copenhagen The Violation of Privacy in Renaissance Texts: A Prefiguration of Modern Challenges Daniela Carpi, University of Verona (Online))

 

Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.15

 

11.15 -12.30

SESSION II — PRIVACY AND THE REFORMATIONS Chair: Søren Frank Jensen, University of Copenhagen   The Space of Interiority and its Regulation in Thomas Bartholin’s Orationes Lars Cyril Nørgaard, University of Copenhagen Privacy in Anglo-American Law: From the Reformation to the Enlightenment Peter Winn, University of Washington

 

Lunch

12.30 – 13.30

 

13.30 – 14.45

SESSION III — PRIVACY BETWEEN JURISDICTION AND CORRESPONDANCE Chair: Ulrike Müssig, University of Passau   Arcana and Curiositas: Ahasver Fritsch and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Germany Paolo Astorri, University of Copenhagen ‘His Dearest Property’: Private Papers and Secrets in 18th Century Common Law TT Arvind, University of York

 

Coffee Break

14.45 – 15.15

 

15.15 -16.00   08.15-09.00 (CDT)

SESSION IV — TEMPORAL CROSSINGS: PRIVACY IN TRANSITION Chair: Johannes Ljungberg, University of Linköping Lockean Liberalism, Religious Liberty, and the Foundations of Intellectual Privacy Marc J. Blitz, Oklahoma City University (Online)

 

16.00 -16.45

CONCLUDING DAY 1 Group Discussion

 

Wine Reception

Centre for Privacy Studies

17.00 – 18.00

Day 2: 26^th June

Location: Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Karen Blixens Plads, 16, 2300 København S, Room: 6B.1.62

8.30 – 9.00	ARRIVALS AND WELCOME COFFEE
09.00 – 10.15	SESSION V — PRIVACY AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IMAGINATION Chair: Lars Cyril Nørgaard, University of Copenhagen   Privacy Spaces in Dutch Nineteenth-Century Society: From Sara Burgerhart to Major Frans Bert-Jaap Koops, Tilburg University   Reserve and Revelation: Modern Conceptions of Privacy in the Novels of Jane Austen Róisín á Costello, Trinity College Dublin

 

Coffee Break

10.15 – 10.45

 

10.45 – 12.00

SESSION VI: PRIVACY, PERSONALITY, AND MODERN LAW Chair: Patrick O’ Callaghan, University College Cork The Rise of the Right to Private Life: Between Civil Liability and Droit D’Auteur Giovanni Chiodi, University of Milan Bicocca (Online)   Dignity Reconsidered: An Analysis of its Inviolability’s Instrumentalization Ulrike Müssig, University of Passau

 

Lunch

12.00 – 13.0

 

13.00 – 15.45

SESSION VII: TAKING STOCK Chair: Natalie P. Koerner, University of Copenhagen   Privacy and Utopian Thinking Bart Van Der Sloot, Tilburg University Privacy Between Past and Present Tamar Herzog, Harvard University General Discussion Moderated By Paolo Astorri & Patrick O’Callaghan

 

Guided Excursion

Regensen Kollegium and Trinitatis Kirke

Store Kannikestræde, 2 Copenhagen

16.00 – 17.30

For more information, contact dr. Paolo Astorri.