Kategoria: ELBOW Team
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Archive Travel Log: On the Tracks of Swedish Practitioners
Our ELBOW researcher Saara-Maija Kontturi spent time in Sweden for archival work during this autumn. While enjoying her time there, she wrote an archive travel log that sheds light on the everyday life of a historian and how it was like to work in the archives. So, let Saara-Maija’s travel log with plenty of wonderful…
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Congratulations Stefan on your new book!
Our autumn has kicked off with good energy, and there will be many inspiring things happening during the upcoming academic year. We will launch our new season of ELBOW Talks very soon, the programme of our ELBOW Conference in March 2026 will be published in December, and our researchers are travelling all around Europe gathering…
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Electricity, love and desire – Electric Valentine’s Day Part II
Our ELBOW researchers Stefan and Edna have been exploring the common ground of love and electricity, in the spirit of today’s Valentine’s Day. Inspired by the more or less surprising combination of love and electricity, we published yesterday the first part of two blogposts celebrating Saint Valentine. Whereas in his text, Stefan deals with metaphorical…
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Venus Electrificata – Electric Valentine’s Day Part I
Followed by our Halloween blogpost last Autumn, we are continuing on the path of electricity and holidays. This time, our ELBOW team has been exploring the common ground of love and electricity, in the spirit of Valentine’s Day. Our researchers Stefan and Edna have written their views on the subject, and this first published blogpost…
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FELBOW Introduction: Saara-Maija Kontturi
We would like to introduce our Fellow ELBOW research members – or FELBOWs – to our blog readers. In the previous blog posts from a year ago, we have got to know the researchers in our project: project leader Soile Ylivuori, university researcher Stefan Schröder, and doctoral researcher Edna Huotari. Since October this year, we have had…
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Animal electricity and conspiracy theories – One case study
The series of introducing case studies – belonging to the material our ELBOW team is working with – continues with the fourth case study. This case study is introduced to you by no other than our project leader Soile Ylivuori. We believe that through giving you insight into the research process it is easier to…
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Medicine without medication – One case study
It is time for our third case study, we hope you have enjoyed them so far! If there is any feedback or comments you would like to share with us, please let us know through email or our contact form. The idea behind these case studies is that we would like to introduce to you…
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ISCH Conference 2024 in Potsdam – ELBOW Panel
ELBOW project was involved in the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH) Annual Conference in Potsdam, 4-6 September. Our researchers Edna Huotari and Stefan Schröder attended the conference and represented the ELBOW team successfully. ELBOW project had a panel in the conference with the title ”Medical electricity and embodied knowledge in the long eighteenth century”.…
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Electrified bodies without heads – One case study
As said last week, we would like to introduce to you the cases and materials our ELBOW research team is working with. Our first case study that we shared with you was about menstruation and a surgeon who treated the so-called ”obstructions” of menstruation using electricity. This case study belongs to materials our ELBOW researcher…
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Shocking early modern periods – One case study
As our ELBOW team is coming back from the summer holidays – which we enjoyed very much – it is time to turn our heads back to the past, medical electricity, and embodied experiences. We would like to introduce to you the cases and materials our ELBOW research team is working with. In our opinion,…
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