Very happy to see this article finally published after being accepted with almost no revision in the journal KNOW (submitted February 2022). With Sanne Maekelberg, we reconstruct the private library of the Cavendish family at Chatsworth House and Hardwick Hall, built and used by Hobbes with the angle of privacy studies developed in the Centre... Continue Reading →
Summer course lectures on the history of the right to privacy
Back in June 2020, I made this recorded lecture for the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) summer school organised at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. I present a long history of human rights in the history of political thought and legal history leading up to the right to privacy. I uploaded... Continue Reading →
ISIH Conference Venice
Poster ISIH Conference 2022 Together with my colleague Sanne Maekelberg from the Centre for Privacy Studies, we will present our research on the Devonshire library curated by Thomas Hobbes. It is the story of an architectural room and the increasing social nature of books. Ci vediamo?
Invited Lecture on the First Book on Cosmopolitanism
https://youtu.be/NxpMxccfrQ0 The Cosmopolitanism of Joseph Honoré Rémy On 29 May 2022, I was invited to give a lecture on my article in Early Modern French Studies, 'Transcending the Public and the Private: The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémy'. I am very thankful to the organisers at the Open Lectures on Freemasonry. Check their other... Continue Reading →
What's privacy got to do with moral philosophy? I'm glad you asked. An answer is in my new post on the Centre for Privacy Studies blog.
Privacy and moral philosophy
New post on privacy in French Nouveau billet sur Traduire privacy: vie privée ou sphère privée ?
New blog post on privacy (in French)
Centre for Privacy Studies
Check Centre for Privacy Studies new blog about its research on privacy 1500-1800. Centre for Privacy Studies is a centre of excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation at the University of Copenhagen.
