ELBOW Blog

  • FELBOW Introduction: MSS Edna Huotari

    We would like to introduce our Fellow ELBOW research members – or FELBOWs – to our blog readers. In the previous three blog posts, our project leader Soile Ylivuori, our researchers Annika Raapke and Stefan Schröder introduced themselves. We have one more researcher to be introduced, and she is our doctoral researcher, MSS Edna Huotari – who…

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  • FELBOW Introduction: University Researcher Stefan Schröder

    We would like to introduce our Fellow ELBOW research members – or FELBOWs – to our blog readers. In the previous two blog posts, our project leader Soile Ylivuori and our researcher Annika Raapke introduced themselves. Next in line is our university researcher Stefan Schröder – who is he? Continue reading the interview and you will know!…

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  • FELBOW Introduction: Dr. Annika Raapke

    We would like to introduce our Fellow ELBOW research members – or FELBOWs – to our blog readers. In the previous blog post, we got to knew our project leader, Associate Professor Soile Ylivuori a little better. But who is our postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Annika Raapke? Continue reading the interview and you will know! Who are you?…

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  • FELBOW Introduction: Associate Professor Soile Ylivuori

    We would like to introduce our Fellow ELBOW research members – or FELBOWs – to our blog readers. The first blog post of our series of introductions is dedicated to our team leader. So, who is the captain of our ELBOW research team, Associate Professor Soile Ylivuori? Continue reading the interview and you will know! Who are…

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  • New members to our team!

    Since the first day of September, we have had the joy of having the ELBOW team together finally as a whole. Since last year, project leader Soile Ylivuori, project coordinator Lotta Vuorio, and doctoral researcher Edna Huotari have been working on the progress of the project, but we have still been missing two members to…

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  • Dr Ylivuori is now Associate Professor Ylivuori!

    Dr Soile Ylivuori, the ELBOW project leader, has been appointed Associate Professor in History at the University of Helsinki. So, since 1st of October, the ELBOW project has an Associate Professor in its team. If you want to read the news in Finnish, do have a look at this blogpost on the Historia-blog (the blog…

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  • University of Helsinki has published news on our ELBOW project and its leader Dr Soile Ylivuori after ERC (European Research Council) announced the five-year grant for our project. Read the news in English here: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/culture/erc-awards-five-year-grant-research-construction-scientific-knowledge Read the news in Finnish here: https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/kulttuuri/tieteellisen-tiedon-rakentumisen-tutkimiseen-viisivuotinen-erc-rahoitus

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  • The project Medical Electricity, Embodied Experiences, and Knowledge Construction in Europe and the Atlantic World, c.1740–1840 (ELBOW) uses medical electricity as a window into examining not simply how scientific knowledge was constructed in the long eighteenth century—but more specifically, into the role of embodied experience in this process. The project is funded by the European…

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