TTEAKH046U PRIVACY CHALLENGED IN PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH (Summer 2020)
An integrated examination of historical and contemporary notions of privacy and the private help us to see our own time in a novel light.
Everybody agrees that privacy is essential, but no authoritative definition exists. Notions of privacy and private concern the confrontation between the individual and his or her surroundings and the boundaries drawn in this context. Recent technological innovations have incited a general concern with privacy, but also narrowed our understanding. We associate privacy with data protection and consider it as a value that is relevant only for our age.
Privacy, however, has deep historical roots. When we study privacy across the gap between past and present, we gain a better sense of the rich and complex implications of the evasive term ‘private’ which contrasts not only ‘public’, but also of ‘professional’, ‘common’ and ‘evident’. A multi-perspectival view shows how notions of privacy past and present shape and are shaped by a broad range of societal factors. Finally, an integrated examination of historical and contemporary notions of privacy and the private help us to see our own time in a novel light.
COURSE OUTLINE:
10 August 2020 – 21 August 2020
Each day will focus on a specific topic, seen from a historical and a contemporary perspective.
The provisional topics for the 2020 summer course are:
• Architectural framing of private space
• Privacy and surveillance
• Privacy and health confidentiality
• Privacy in society: from potential societal threat to human right
• Privacy and the self
• Privacy and Politics
• Privacy in Art and Literature
The course will also feature student presentations and group excursions:
Excursion 1: Boat Tour of the Copenhagen Harbour, private space from 1600 to 2019
Excursion 2: Privacy at Rosenborg Castle and in the Hirschsprung Collection
Exam
The assessment is based on two parts:
Course participation: Active class attendance (75% attendance).
Active course participation is a prerequisite for writing the exam
paper.
Undergraduate requirements: Familiarity with a reading list
(primary and secondary literature) of 600 - 750 pages. A written
paper of 16,800 – 21,600 characters approx. 7-9 pages (formally,
2400 characters per page, including spaces), based on 250-300 pages
of primary literature.
Master requirements: Familiarity with a reading list (primary and
secondary literature) of 600 - 750 pages. A written paper of 19,200
– 24,000 characters approx. 8-10 pages (formally, 2400 characters
per page, including spaces), based on 450-600 pages of primary
literature.
Assessment: Danish 7-point grading scale and ECTS letter grading
scale.
Final Paper due 15 September.
Chartier, Roger with Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby (eds), A History of Private Life, Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance (Harvard; Belknap Press: 1989)
Rössler, Beate, The Value of Privacy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014)
Sloot, Bart van der and Aviva de Groot (eds), The Handbook of Privacy Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018)
across different periods and societal contexts; and, finally, have experienced an open and inquisitive scholarly atmosphere.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Total
- 28
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- TTEAKH046U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterBachelor,Bachelor choice,Full Degree Master choice,Part Time Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn And Summer
- Schedule
- Week 33 and 34
- Course capacity
- ..
- Course is also available as continuing and professional education
- Study board
- Study board of Theology
Contracting department
- Theology
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Theology
Course Coordinators
- Mette Birkedal Bruun (3-706565437768726f316e7831676e)
- Dustin Michael Neighbors (3-677071437768726f316e7831676e)
Lecturers
Mette Birkedal Bruun, Centre for Privacy Studies, University of
Copenhagen,
Peter Thule Kristensen, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of
Architecture
Mette Nordahl Svendsen, Dept. of Public Health, University
of Copenhagen
Brit Ross Withereik, IT University of Copenhagen
with other scholars from the University of Copenhagen