News about History

PRIVACY researchers at ENIUGH conference

Hannah Hjorth, Felicia Fricke, and Hui-Yi Yang recently participated at the ENIUGH conference in Växjö, Sweden—a forum for research in global and transnational history—where they each presented their current work.…

New visiting PhD fellow at PRIVACY

We are pleased to welcome Jan Temme de Vries as a visiting PhD fellow at the Centre for Privacy Studies from September to November 2025. Jan is a PhD candidate in Musicology at the University of Basel, affiliated with…

Pointing out Manicules in AM 76 8vo

Marginal annotations are a popular way to interact with a text; AM 76 8vo showcases manicules, a form of marginalia that literally gets the point across.

New book publication: Shaping Women Philosophers

In november the book Shaping Women Philosophers, edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, will be published at Brill.

PRIVACY welcomes new postdoctoral researcher

The Centre for Privacy Studies is pleased to welcome Angana Moitra, Assistant Professor of English at O.P. Jindal Global University in India, who will join the centre as a postdoctoral researcher from 1 September.…

New book in the Ancient Textiles Series

Our researcher, Chiara Spinazzi Lucchesi, has just published a new book in the Ancient Textiles Series called ”Threads of Contact: Tracing the relationship between Egypt and the southern Levant through textile tools”.

Natasha Gordon-Chipembere concludes her stay at PRIVACY

After an inspiring and engaging research visit in June in association with Fulbright, the Centre for Privacy Studies has said farewell to guest researcher Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere. Her visit sparked intellectual…

PhD Fellow Hui-Yi Yang receives Government Scholarship

We are delighted to announce that our PhD Fellow at PRIVACY Hui-Yi Yang has been awarded the Government Scholarship to Study Abroad by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. The scholarship provides 16,000 USD and…

New Guest Researcher at PRIVACY

This month, PRIVACY is pleased to welcome guest researcher Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere. Last week, Natasha held a workshop on her historical fiction novel about the Black Madonna, Finding La Negrita, set in 1634…

Bastian Felter Vaucanson has been appointed as the new research leader of the PRIVACY theme BELIEF

Bastian is an Assistant Professor in Church History and has been part of the PRIVACY team since 2018, when he began his PhD studies on intimacy in private spiritual letter writing in early modern France. With Bastian…

New blog post by Asta Mønsted on private belongings in historic Greenland

In her newly published blog post, PRIVACY-scholar Asta Mønsted reflects on private spaces and personal belongings in historic Greenlandic Inuit cultures. Taking five different layers of property into account, Asta…

Flax, weights and swords: Recreating weaving with the warp weighted loom

The TRiVAL project has begun an exciting new subproject.

PRIVACY scholar Nuno Grancho appointed as Wüstenrot Fellow 2025

We are pleased to announce that Nuno Grancho, affiliated scholar at PRIVACY, has been selected as one of the iaas Wüstenrot Fellows for 2025 at the südwestdeutsches Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau (saai), hoste…

Call for papers: History education, public memory and difficult pasts

Call for papers for workshop in Podgorica, Montenegro, 25-26 September 2025.

Spot on PRIVACY scholars: Hui-Yi Yang

We recently interviewed PhD student Hui-Yi Yang about her research stay in Taiwan this semester. Hui-Yi has a master’s degree in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy, and in her PhD, she focuses on darkness and…

Centre for Privacy Studies celebrates book launch and transformation into new thematic structure

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), a Centre of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation, celebrated the release of its latest publication Privacy in Early Modern Saxony: Perspectives on…

A Message from ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke

Next week, Felicia Fricke will leave ITSS! It's not goodbye though - she will start another postdoc position in Copenhagen and will still be affiliated with us. Here, she gives a brief account of her time in the project…

OPEN CALL: Graduate Seminar in Early Modern Caribbean History

ITSS PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen invites applications to participate in a seminar, to take place on September 19, 2025.

Mary Sadler: Curse Words and Gentility in St. Eustatius, 1801

In this short blog post, ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke writes about free women's bad language and the idea of the colonial gentleman in the early nineteenth century Dutch Caribbean.

Hajime Inaba visiting from Japan

Hajime Inaba (Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan) will be a Guest Researcher at the Niels Bohr Archive from April 2025 to March 2027.

New Book Release: Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence

We are pleased to announce the release of a new book, Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence, edited by the PRIVACY-affiliated scholars Michaël Green and Lars Cyril Nørgaard, with contributions from various…

Art, diplomacy, and espionage? PRIVACY scholar Oskar Rojewski explains his research on Michel Sittow and court diplomacy

Juan de Flandes, The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist, 1496-1499, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art © Public Domain Could a court painter in late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Europe also have served as a…

Et gensyn med nubiske tekstiler

Onsdag den 19. marts besøgte Hendes Majestæt Dronning Margrethe Center for Tekstilforskning (CTR) på Saxo-instituttet. Besøget bød på præsentationer af aktuel forskning inden for tekstilstudier samt demonstrationer af…

Save the Date: How Women Shaped the Nordic Enlightenment

On 18-20 June Whence will host a conference on “How Women Shaped the Nordic Enlightenment”, bringing together scholars from different fields to illuminate and deepen our understanding of women’s contributions to the…