The Night as a Private Space: Darkness, Secrecy, and Shadows in the Early Modern Period and Today
Name of applicant
Bastian Felter Vaucanson
Title
Assistant Professor
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Amount
DKK 79,800
Year
2025
Type of grant
Conferences
Summary
Obscure, opaque, and occult, the early modern night is a privileged space of privacy. Is that still the case? Society is arguably undergoing a fundamental recalibration of the night with nocturnal privacy under pressure from various economic, technological and political sectors. By looking to the past, this conference aims to reconsidering the night as a private space in contemporary 24/7 society.