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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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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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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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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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We are more than happy to share our first guest essay on our blog. ELBOW project’s researchers held a course at the University of Helsinki in autumn 2024. Sigrid Autio was one of the students who took part to the course, and whose course essay we are more than happy to publish on the ELBOW
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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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It all started with frog legs, namely the frog legs being tested upon by the Italian physician Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) in Bologna. Galvani discovered what he called “animal electricity” by showing that frog legs would move and their muscles contract when the nerves in the legs were exposed to zinc and copper rods. Many ideas
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We had the first ELBOW Team day for this academic year in the early October, and it was a great team day. We don’t all live in Helsinki, so we organize every now and then days when we all meet and work together in Helsinki. As you can see from the picture, we have a
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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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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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