Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Short presentation
I am the PI of the Swedish Research Council Secrets to Patents: Trans-Imperial Strategies for Keeping Medicines as Private Assets from 1500 to 1900 at Lund University and the Research Leader of the HEALTH & SCIENCE theme at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. 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, Federal University of Santa Maria
1 Mar 2005 → 5 Jan 2010
Award Date: 5 Jan 2010
External positions
Organizer at Contecte Humanidades Digitais UFSM, Federal University of Santa Maria
1 Sept 2024 → …
Research output
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Introduction to ANIMAL PRIVACY: Historical and Conceptual Approaches
Klein Kafer, N., Mills, B. & Nagai, K., 2026, In: Privacy Studies Journal. p. 1-13 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Special Issue ANIMAL PRIVACY: Historical and Conceptual Approaches
Klein Kafer, N. (Editor), Mills, B. (Editor) & Nagai, K. (Editor), 2026, 145 p. (Privacy Studies Journal).Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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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. Green, M. & Nørgaard, L. C. (eds.). Brepols Publishers, p. 173-189 17 p. (Early European Research, Vol. 22).Research 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, In: Current Research in Digital History. 8Research 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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Ethics of Interdisciplinary Research Across Multiple Ranges of Proximity
Klein Kafer, N., Klakk, E. & Bruun, M. B., 2024, In: Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies. 42, 1-2, p. 195-222Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Past Privacy Today
Vaucanson, B. F. (Member of organizing or programme committee), Koerner, N. (Member of organizing or programme committee), Klein Kafer, N. (Member of organizing or programme committee), Astorri, P. (Member of organizing or programme committee) & Ljungberg, J. (Member of organizing or programme committee)
2 Sept 2026 → 3 Sept 2026Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Saúde, Saberes Populares e Patrimônio
Klein Kafer, N. (Organizer), Teixeira Weber, B. (Organizer), Tomazi, T. G. (Organizer) & Macknow Lisboa, K. (Speaker)
22 Apr 2026Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Global History Seminar
Klein Kafer, N. (Organizer) & Moitra, A. (Speaker)
10 Apr 2026Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Saúde, Saberes Populares e Patrimônio
Klein Kafer, N. (Organizer), Teixeira Weber, B. (Organizer), Tomazi, T. G. (Organizer) & dos Santos Matos, R. (Speaker)
8 Apr 2026Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Saúde, Saberes Populares e Patrimônio
Klein Kafer, N. (Organizer), Teixeira Weber, B. (Organizer), Tomazi, T. G. (Organizer) & Pimenta, T. (Speaker)
25 Mar 2026Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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From Secrets to Patents: Global Colonial Entanglements Shaping Medicine as Property
Klein Kafer, N. (Lecturer)
20 Mar 2026Activity: Presentations, memberships and other activity types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Saúde, Saberes Populares e Patrimônio
Klein Kafer, N. (Organizer), Teixeira Weber, B. (Organizer), Tomazi, T. G. (Organizer) & Armani, C. (Speaker)
11 Mar 2026 → …Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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The central contradiction of intellectual property in “deep tech”
Klein Kafer, N. (Organizer) & Milne, G. (Speaker)
10 Mar 2026Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Press/Media
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Palestra de abertura da 40ª JAI aborda o uso da inteligência artificial na academia
03/11/2025
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Natacha Klein Käfer: Health and privacy from a historical perspective
27/09/2024
1 item of Media coverage
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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