News about History

Florentine's Letters: Grief, Sorrow, and Love from Martinique to Dominica

In this short blog post, ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen discusses one enslaved woman's Lesser Antillean support network, expressed through letters written originally written in French or French Creole in 1818.

New Publication: History and Public Debates about Racial Slavery in Denmark

ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen has just published a chapter in the edited volume 'Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe' (DeGruyter, 2023).

Commemorative Lecture by Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun

Mette Birkedal Bruun gave the lecture entitled: From Monks to GDPR

Brazilian research delegation visited the Centre for Privacy Studies

The collaboration between the Centre for Privacy Studies and the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria brought a Brazilian research delegation to the Centre for Privacy Studies.

New Publication: Together in a Small Boat

ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen and PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen have published an article in the William and Mary Quarterly! Read more about it here.

ITSS Team Finishes Data Entry for Marronage Database

The IN THE SAME SEA team has finished data entry for our runaway slave database! We started with an unnamed man jailed as runaway advertised in the Antigua Gazette from 1776, and ended with Sophie in the Journal…

PRIVACY-researcher Asta Mønsted contributed to the Venice Biennale of Architecture

This year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture opened in May and is running until the end of November. On October 12 archaeologist and postdoctoral researcher at PRIVACY, Asta Mønsted contributed to a workshop in the Nordi…

The library turns 240 years old

In 1783, the library was established at Abildgaards Veterinary School in Christianshavn. Read more on our website: https://kub.ku.dk/english/libraries/frederiksberg/cultural-heritage/heritage/history_library/

Copenhagen Conversations – On Time

Talk on 'time' with Joel Robbins, Cambridge, and Francois Hartog, EHESS, Paris.

Nuno Grancho gave a conference paper at Harvard, MIT and Brown Universities

Nuno Grancho presented his research at the Conference of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) that took place at Harvard, MIT and Brown Universities, USA.

New book about architect Lauritz de Thurah

Peter Thule Kristensen, core scholar at Centre for Privacy Studies and professor at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation, is the editor of a new impressive monograph about the life and work of…

PRIVACY-postdoc Sanne Maekelberg in new job at KU Leuven

Postdoctoral researcher at Centre for Privacy Studies, Sanne Maekelberg recently started a new job at KU Leuven. For the past three years, Sanne has worked at PRIVACY and enriched us with her expertise in architectural…

Rasmus Christensen's Semester Abroad in Växjö, Sweden

ITSS PhD Fellow, Rasmus Christensen, has recently returned from his semester abroad at Linnaeus University. Find out what he got up to!

PRIVACY welcomes new guest PhD Fellow Taís Giacomini Tomazi

We are happy to welcome our newest guest researcher Taís Giacomini Tomazi Taís has a degree in History from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), a master's degree in History from the Post Graduate Program of…

New PRIVACY book: Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries

Ineke Huysman and former Privacy researcher and colleague Michael Green edited the book. The book contains PRIVACY contributions by Sanne Maekelberg, Natacha Klein Käfer, Jelena Bakić and Michael Green.

New Publication: An Eighteenth Century Account of St. Croix, USVI

ITSS Phd Fellow Rasmus Christensen has published a Danish-language article in the journal Danske Magazin.

New Publication: Dutch Creole Texts from the Virgin Islands

ITSS Phd Fellow Rasmus Christensen has co-authored an article about newly discovered Dutch Creole texts from the former Danish West Indies.

New Publication: Rumours in the Lesser Antilles

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke has published an article in the New West Indian Guide. Click to access the article and the associated press release in NOW Grenada!

Official CULTMIND launch 12 September

On Tuesday 12 September, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND), the Danish National Research Foundation’s new Centre of Excellence, was officially opened with a festive reception at the Faculty of Humanities.

Privacy-researcher Asta Mønsted presenting Arctic archaeological perspectives on the starry sky at Dark Sky Festival

Postdoctoral researcher in prehistoric archaeology at Centre for Privacy Studies, Asta Mønsted, presented at a seminar at the Dark Sky Festival in Tårup, Denmark, in the beginning of September 2023. Asta is specialized…

New honorary doctors change our view of the past

At the university's traditional annual celebration, Årsfesten, in November, the new honorary doctors at UCPH are appointed. This year, the Faculty of Humanities is appointing two of the 11 new honorary doctors.

PhD scholarship at The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (3 years)

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Church History, Legal…

PhD scholarships at the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (3 years)

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Church History, Legal…

2.900 år gammel mursten gemte på DNA fra oldtiden

I et nyt studie i Scientific Reports viser forskere, at det er muligt at udtrække forhistorisk DNA af en 2.900 år gammel mursten. Den nye analysemetode vil kunne give klimaforskere, biologer og arkæologer et unikt…