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Karen Blixens Plads 16
2300 København S
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I am a church historian with a keen interest in religiously motivated withdrawal from the world in the middle ages and the early modern period. I study the material and immaterial, lasting and ephemeral as well as robust and porous boundaries drawn in connection with this withdrawal.
This research focus has led me into an extensive work with privacy in the past and in the present.
I am interested in interdisciplinary collaboration between research fields and different sectors and in ways in which historical research can be of relevance for contemporary issues such as questions related to privacy.
Born 1 November 1967
From 1 June 2020: PI, STAY HOME: The Home during the corona crisis - and after (the Carlsberg Foundation)
From 15 Sept. 2017: Leader of The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies
From 1 July 2017: Professor of Church History
2017: dr.theol.: The Unfamiliar Familiar: Armand-Jean de Rancé (1626-1700) between Withdrawal and Engagement
2016-17: Chair of the Research Board and Faculty of Theology representative in University of Copenhagen Research and Innovation Board (KUFIR)
Feb. 2013-March 2017: Director of the research project: SOLITUDES: Withdrawal and Engagement in the long Seventeenth Century (ERC)
From 15 Dec. 2009: Professor at the Department of Church History
2003-9: Research fellow at The Danish Research Council's centre of excellence Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals
2001-2: post-doc. grant from the Danish Research Council of the Humanities (SHF)
2000: PhD: Bernard of Clairvaux's Mapping of Spiritual Topography
1997-8: Visiting fellow, Clare Hall College, Cambridge University
1996-9: PhD student at the Department of Church History, University of Aarhus
1995: MA in theology from the University of Copenhagen
2022: Elected member of the praesidium of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters as representative of the humanities and social sciences class
2022: Member of the advisory board of Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
2020: Editor-in-chief of Privacy Studies Journal
2020: Member of The Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy (vice chair from 2023)
2019: Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
2019: Member of the council of the Renaissance Society of America
2018: Member of the Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen
2012: Årets Harald: The University of Copenhagen teaching prize
Privacy 1500-1800
Early modern devotion in France, Germany and England
Monasticism
My primary research right now concerns notions of privacy in the period 1500-1800 seen from church historical and interdisciplinary perspectives.
The role of church historical research in interdisciplinary constellations
Church historical research as a resource for contemporary issues
Board member, Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
1 Aug 2022 → …
Vice chair, Danmarks Forsknings og Innovationspolitiske Råd
1 May 2020 → …
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution › Blog post › Research
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Doctoral thesis › Research
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Mette Birkedal Bruun (Editor)
Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research
Mette Birkedal Bruun (Editor)
Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research
Janine Marie Traulsen (Workshop leader), Lotte Stig Nørgaard (Workshop leader), Emma Klakk Christensen (Organizer) & Mette Birkedal Bruun (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Natacha Klein Kafer (Invited speaker) & Mette Birkedal Bruun (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Mette Birkedal Bruun (Other), Natacha Klein Kafer (Other) & Søren Frank Jensen (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Johannes Ljungberg (Speaker) & Mette Birkedal Bruun (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Michael Green (Organizer), Ineke Huysman (Organizer), Mette Birkedal Bruun (Participant) & Natália da Silva Perez (Participant)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Michael Green (Organizer), Natália da Silva Perez (Organizer), Helle Vogt (Organizer), Fredrik Torisson (Organizer) & Mette Birkedal Bruun (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Bruun, Mette Birkedal (Recipient), 3 Sep 2017
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Bruun, Mette Birkedal (Recipient), 21 Nov 2017
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Bruun, Mette Birkedal (Recipient), 14 Dec 2007
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Bruun, Mette Birkedal (Recipient), 2012
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Bruun, Mette Birkedal (Recipient), 18 Mar 2018
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