Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Short presentation
I am currently researching the interplay between health and privacy in the early modern period and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Beyond medical discourse on privacy, I focus on how popular healing knowledge survived in the private sphere despite the efforts to suppress these practices, paying particular attention to the relationship between popular healing and “official” medical knowledge, witch trials, the legal framing of healing practices, and colonial encounters. I am particularly interested in how health is framed in trans-continental and trans-imperial contexts of healing knowledge transmission and the cross-connections between health, death, superstition, secrecy, and privacy.
Education/Academic qualification
History, PhD, Rituals, Migrations, and Texts: German Charms in a Transcontinental Perspective, Free University of Berlin
25 Sept 2013 → 20 Feb 2017
Award Date: 20 Feb 2017
Religious Studies, MA, German Brauchbücher in Southern Brazil: A Case Study, University of Erfurt
10 Oct 2011 → 11 Mar 2013
Award Date: 11 Mar 2013
History, BA, Cadernos do Tio Artur: Registros Manuscritos da Magia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
1 Mar 2005 → 5 Jan 2010
Award Date: 5 Jan 2010
External positions
Organizer at Contecte Humanidades Digitais UFSM, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
1 Sept 2024 → …
Research output
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Personal Gift-Giving: Attempts at Intimacy in Anna of Saxony's Letter Exchanges
Klein Kafer, N., 2025, Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence. Brepols Publishers, p. 173-189Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Private Birth, Public Authority: Topic changes from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century in German midwifery books
Klein Kafer, N., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Current Research in Digital History.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: Causes for Concern
Jurewicz, M., Klein Kafer, N. & Kran, E., 2024, In: Privacy Studies Journal. 3, 2024, p. 1-32 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Contingent Privacies: Knowledge Production and Gender Expectations from 1500 to 1800
Klein Kafer, N., 2024, Women's Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe. Kafer, N. K. & , N. D. S. P. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 129-137 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Dynamics of Privacy at Sea: An Introduction to Privacy Studies in Maritime History
Klein Kafer, N., 2024, Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History. Käfer, N. K. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-17 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Excising Superstition from Knowledge: August of Saxony’s Book of Healing Charms
Klein Kafer, N., 2024, In: KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge. 8, 1-2, p. 103-130 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Language, Settings, and Networks of Early Modern Private Conversations
Ljungberg, J. & Klein Kafer, N., 2024, Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe: Talking in Everyday Life.. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 3-30 28 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Opinions: A Historical View of Privacy in the Maritime Context
Klein Kafer, N., 2024, In: European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL). 10, 2, p. 143-145 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Renaissance Society of America: Annual Meeting 2025
Klein Kafer, N. (Participant)
20 Mar 2025 → 22 Mar 2025Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Sixteenth-Century Spaces of Knowledge Production: The Alchemical Laboratories of Anna and August of Saxony
Klein Kafer, N. (Invited speaker) & Körner, N. P. (Invited speaker)
20 Mar 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Free Womb Laws Roundtable
Klein Kafer, N. (Organizer), Hjorth, H. K. (Organizer) & da Silva Perez, N. (Organizer)
26 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Desvendando o Trankribus
Klein Kafer, N. (Other)
21 Oct 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: Causes for Concearn?
Klein Kafer, N. (Panel member)
22 May 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection Conference
Klein Kafer, N. (Speaker)
22 May 2024 → 24 May 2024Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Studying Abroad
Klein Kafer, N. (Workshop leader)
4 Apr 2024Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Estudos históricos de privacidade: uma introdução metodológica
Klein Kafer, N. (Lecturer)
3 Apr 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Press/Media
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Natacha Klein Käfer: Health and privacy from a historical perspective
27/09/2024
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Natacha Klein Kafer, egressa do curso de História, conta sobre como é fazer Pós-Doutorado na Universidade de Copenhague e compartilha sua trajetória na pesquisa.
14/07/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media