Privacy Studies Podcast

Centre for Privacy Studies

Host Natália da Silva Perez talks to guests about privacy from a historical perspective. Invited scholars come from a range of disciplines beyond history, including law, social and computer sciences, and philosophy. Lectures and seminars from the Centre for Privacy Studies are also featured in this show.

  1. 04/04/2022

    The Poison Trials - Interview with Alisha Rankin

    Alisha Rankin is an associate professor of History at Tufts University. In this interview, recorded in the spring of 2021, Natacha Klein Käfer joins me as co-host to talk to Alisha about her book The Poison Trials : Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science.

  2. 13/04/2021

    Sex in an Old Regime City - Interview with Julie Hardwick

    Julie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin) talks about her newest book Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France 1660 - 1789, which came out with Oxford University Press in September 2020. In the book, she focuses on intimacy among young workers who lived in the urban environment of early modern Lyon, and makes extensive use of archival material to examine a topic highly relevant for privacy studies.

  3. 30/06/2020

    Private Rights and the Common Good in Late Scholastic Thought

    James Gordley argues that, in the writings of the late scholastics, private rights and the common good were in harmony, but modern liberalism disrupted this harmony. In his lecture, he explains how these ideas fit together.

    52 min

  4. 30/05/2020

    Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany

    Paolo Astorri, winner of the RefoRC Book Award 2020 for his book Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany, talks about the influence of theological ideas in the development of contract theory in 16th century Germany. In this interview, we cover how ideas by Reformers Martin Luther and Philip Melanchton were expanded, developed, and sometimes even distorted by theologians and jurists that came in their wake.

    27 min

  5. 27/03/2020

    Locating the Private in the Roman World

    Andrew Riggsby gives a talk titled "Locating the Private in the Roman World." He explains that, despite their common use of explicit terms for “private” (and “public”), the ancient Romans did little to theorize those categories. In his talk, Andrew supplies such a theoretical account and points out ways in which the “private” was used as a tool of social control. Drawing from examples from the realms of domestic space and of financial regulation, he attends especially to gendered aspects of this control.

  6. 28/02/2020

    Locating the Cubiculum: Early Christian musings on the Place of Prayer

    Mette Birkedal Bruun takes about the Gospel of Matthew, which presents Jesus introducing the Lord's Prayer with an injunction to enter into the chamber and close the door so as to pray in secret (Mt 6.6). For early Christian authors, this command elicited a series of questions: How to reconcile the entry into the chamber with the command to pray everywhere (cf 1 Tim 2)? Where and what is this chamber – not to mention its door? How are praying persons to comport themselves in the chamber under God's watchful eye? In this talk, Mette discusses third- and fourth-century expositions of Mt 6.6 and ponder their place in privacy studies.

  7. 24/01/2020

    From Rooftop to Chamber: Prayer in Jerome’s Rendering of the Book of Judith

    Florian Wöller discusses the biblical book of Judith in a Latin rendering (4th c. AD) by the church father Jerome. This book tells the story of a courageous widow who saved Israel from the Assyrians by killing the Assyrian general Holofernes. In the oldest versions of the story, Judith prays on the roof of her house, but in Jerome's translation, she prays in a cubiculum. In this talk, Florian investigates Jerome's move of Judith's place of prayer, contextualizing it with further late antique notions of cubiculum prayer, and suggesting a reading of Judith's cubiculum as a private-public place of prayer.

    22 min

  8. 14/12/2019

    Information and Privacy in Ages of Surveillance

    Laura Skouvig and Jens-Erik Mai cover different current day perspectives on information, privacy and surveillance. They end with a discussion of information and surveillance in late 18th and early 19th centuries, and share examples of concrete manifestations found in the archives of the police in Copenhagen.

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Host Natália da Silva Perez talks to guests about privacy from a historical perspective. Invited scholars come from a range of disciplines beyond history, including law, social and computer sciences, and philosophy. Lectures and seminars from the Centre for Privacy Studies are also featured in this show.

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  • Creator
    Centre for Privacy Studies
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2022
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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