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Abstract:
Needs for privacy emerge when boundaries are negotiated between individuals, communities, and societies. In such encounters, the large-scale structures of public space are challenged by the small-scale needs, desires, and wishes of individuals and smaller social groups.
- How do such social dynamics play out across different contexts across the globe, both in the past and present?
- How do changes in institutional structures influence privacy, and the other way around?
- What forms of privacy were safeguarded or suppressed?
- Who has been entitled to privacy, and under what circumstances?
- How does privacy relate to other concepts such as intimacy, secrecy, confidentiality, and anonymity?
- And how should we as historians and contemporary privacy scholars navigate the boundaries between them?
This conference aims to address these and similar questions through thematic panels, inviting speakers and audience for interdisciplinary explorations. Building upon the insights produced at the Centre for Privacy Studies (2017-2027), it is our goal that these discussions will spark a flourishing stream of new scholarship in the field of privacy studies.
Program:
Day 1 (3 September 2026)
09:00: Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:15-09:35: Introduction
Paolo Astorri (Centre for Privacy Studies/Lund University)
09:35-11:45: Panel 1 - Urban Space: Privacy inside and outside the city: spaces, social patterns, and institutional settings
09:35-09:55: Urban Space – a paradoxical cradle of privacy
Johannes Ljungberg (Linköping University/Centre for Privacy Studies)
09:55-10:15: Affordances, transgressions, risks: privacy and gender in 18th-century urban green spaces
Antonia Weiß (Amsterdam University)
10:15-10:35: Marriage, sex and family life in the 18th century Dutch oversea empire
Sophie Rose (Universität Tübingen)
10:35-10:50: Break
10:50-11:45: Round table and shared discussion moderated by Viktor Wretström (Centre for Privacy Studies)
11:45-13:00: Break
13:00-15:10: Panel 2 - Home: Privacy in the Early Modern Home: Cases from Europe, Greenland and Formosa (present-day Taiwan)
13:00-13:10: Introduction
Natalie Patricia Körner (Centre for Privacy Studies/Royal Danish Academy— Architecture, Design, Conservation)
13:10-13:30: The Making of Privacy at Home in Europe, 1500-2000
Raffaella Sarti (University of Urbino)
13:30-13:50: Drawing the Curtain: Negotiating Privacy in the Kalaallit Communal House.
Asta Mønsted (University of Copenhagen)
13:50-14:10: Approaching Privacy through Darkness in Sirayan Houses during Dutch Colonisation.
Hui-Yi Yang (Centre for Privacy Studies/Royal Danish Academy— Architecture, Design, Conservation)
14:10-14:20: Break
14:20-15:10: Round table and shared discussion moderated by Natalie Patricia Körner (Centre for Privacy Studies/Royal Danish Academy— Architecture, Design, Conservation)
15:10-15:40: Coffee & Cake
15:40-17:50: Panel 3 - Belief: Cosmologies of Privacy and the Privacy of Cosmologies
15:40-15:50: Introduction
Bastian Felter Vaucanson (Centre for Privacy Studies)
15:50-16:10: Responsible Freedom: Privacy in Native American Twinship Culture [online presentation]
Barbara Alice Mann (University of Toledo)
16:10-16:30: When the World is your Village. Reconceptualising Indigeneity and Privacy through a Global Biography
Martha Fredriks (Protestantse Theologische Universiteit, Utrecht)
16:30-16:50: Privacy as Perseverance. Sámi Ritual Traditions in Early Modern Central Sweden in a Time of Forced Homogenization.
Jonas Monié (Lund University)
16:50-17:00: Break
17:00-17:50: Round table and shared discussion moderated by Karen Lauterbach (Centre for African Studies, University of Copenhagen)
Day 2 (4 September 2026)
09:15: Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:30-11:45: Panel 4 - Health: Privacy and Health: Sharing and Protecting Knowledge in Systems of Care
9.30-9.40: Introduction
Natacha Klein Käfer (Centre for Privacy Studies/Lund University)
9:40-10:00: Datasociality in Precision Medicine
Mette Svendsen (University of Copenhagen)
10:00-10:20: Privacy and Hospital in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Gisela Drossbach (Universität Augsburg)
10:20-10:40: Privacy and Health: Past-Present Perspectives
Natacha Klein Käfer (Centre for Privacy Studies/Lund University)
10:40-10:50: Break
10:50-11:45: Round table and shared discussion moderated by Angana Moitra (Centre for Privacy Studies/Lund University)
11:45-12:30: Break
12:30-15:00: Panel 5 - Law: Anonymity Before Encryption: Concealing Identities in Early Modern Transactions
12:30-12:40: Introduction
Paolo Astorri (Centre for Privacy Studies/Lund University)
12:40-13:00: Private, but Not Personal: Rethinking Privacy in Medieval Law
Guido Rossi (University of Palermo)
13:00-13:20: Anonymity and Silent Financiers in Sixteenth-Century Commercial Partnership
Luisa Brunori (CNRS Paris)
13:20-13:40: The Merchant’s Silence: Secrecy and Norms of Conduct in Early Modern Mercantile Literature
Stefania Gialdroni (University of Padua)
13:40-14:00: An Identity to Hide? Noble Merchants in the Early Modern Era: A Legal Survey
Giovanni Chiodi (University of Milano Bicocca)
14:00-14:10: Break
14:10-15:00: Round table and shared discussion moderated by José María Martín Humanes (Centre for Privacy Studies)
15:00-16:00: Closing session
15:00-15:30: Concluding Remarks by Mette Birkedal Bruun (Director, Centre for Privacy Studies)
15:30-16:00: Plenary Discussion
16:15-17:30: Reception (Centre for Privacy Studies)
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Programme may be subject to smaller changes
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