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Mitä roolipelisuunnittelija tekee? Miten yhdistetään tieteellinen tutkimus ja roolipeli? Mitä roolipelillä edes tarkoitetaan? Näihin ja muihin kysymyksiin vastaa Kristelin kirjoitus @koneensaatio.fi Kaivolla-blogissa! #titaraproject #koneensäätiö #konefoundation koneensaatio.fi/tarinat-ja-j...

Millaista on roolipelisuunnittelijan työ osana tutkimushanketta? - Koneen Säätiö

Kristel Nyberg kertoo, miten Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -hankkeen pöytäroolipeli syntyy ja millaista on yhteistyö tutkijoiden kanssa.

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Sara Norja@saranorja.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Sara's article on alchemical metaphors is now officially published!

The special issue "Imagining Alchemy: Visual and Figurative Representations in Pre-Modern Sciences" is now out in BJHS Themes! I'm so chuffed to have an article in this issue - it's been out in early view for a while, but it's now official! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Idan, Saran ja Karolina Kouvolan toimittama erikoisnumero Between Science and Magic (Mirator 2/2025) on ilmestynyt! Viime vuotisesta symposiumista kummunneessa erikoisnumerossa Carla Suhr ja Antti Ijäs pohtivat tieteen ja taikuuden yhteenkietoutumista. journal.fi/mirator/issu...

Mirator Vol 25 Nro 2 (2025): Between Science and Magic

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TiTaRa @titaraproject.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The special issue Between Science and Magic (Mirator 2/2025) edited by Ida, Sara and Karolina Kouvola is out now! The special issue continues with the themes of our symposium last year as Carla Suhr and Antti Ijäs explore the intermingling of science and magic. journal.fi/mirator/issu...

Mirator Vol 25 Nro 2 (2025): Between Science and Magic

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Uusi TiTaRa-artikkeli on saatavilla! Yhteistyökumppanimme Peter Grund kirjoitti Sara Norjan kanssa yhteisartikkelin alkemististen käsikirjoitusten tuotannosta. Artikkeli on nyt luettavissa alkemian ja kemian historiaa käsittelevässä Ambixissa: doi.org/10.1080/0002... #koneensäätiö @koneensaatio.fi

Alchemy, the Vernacular, and Text Production in Late Medieval England: Presentation Strategies in Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS O.5.31 and R.14.37

The article studies the strategies that late-medieval scribes used to present alchemical texts to their audience. Investigating two late fifteenth-century alchemical codices – Trinity College, Camb...

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TiTaRa @titaraproject.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Another TiTaRa article is out online! Our collaborator Peter Grund wrote an article together with Sara Norja on alchemical manuscript production. You can now read it online in Ambix, a journal on the history of alchemy and chemistry: doi.org/10.1080/0002... #konefoundation #titaraproject #alchemy

Alchemy, the Vernacular, and Text Production in Late Medieval England: Presentation Strategies in Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS O.5.31 and R.14.37

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TiTaRa @titaraproject.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🇨🇭 Lokakuussa Ida puhui työn alla olevasta artikkelistaan keskiajan Englannin kieleen, kulttuuriin ja kirjallisuuteen keskittyvässä SEM XXV:ssa (25. Studientag Englisches Mittelalter) Zürichissä. 1/ #titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö @koneensaatio.fi

A beautiful old library in Zürich, with finely carved doors and bookcases.

Mari-Liisa Varila @mlvarila.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Tänään kokoustimme @titaraproject.bsky.social kesken ja suunnittelimme tulevia julkaisuja aina akateemisista artikkeleista roolipelin taittoon sekä tapahtumia konferensseista testipeleihin. Hankkeessa on edelleen paras meininki! Hyvää säätiöpäivää ja lämmin kiitos tuesta @koneensaatio.fi 🙏

Mari-Liisa Varila @mlvarila.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We spent this evening telling kids about Old English and manuscripts at the Science Night organised by Lounais-Suomen LUMA-keskus (photo by them). Excellent work matching OE/PDE/Finnish words, reading manuscript facsimiles, and writing with dip pens 🤩 @titaraproject.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi

Old English, English and Finnish words printed on small cards.

Mari-Liisa Varila @mlvarila.bsky.social · last yr.

New TiTaRa article out! Sara's "Nourishing the alchemical child: metaphors of family life as textual cohesion in the fifteenth-century The Gracious Work" is out in first view in BJHS Themes: doi.org/10.1017/bjt....

Screen cap of the BJHS Themes page with Sara Norja's journal article "Nourishing the alchemical child: metaphors of family life as textual cohesion in the fifteenth-century The Gracious Work".

We tested our project’s tabletop role-playing game Written in the Stars @ Ropecon. It focuses on alchemists, astrologers and magic practitioners – and their communities – in medieval and early modern England. Launch in Finnish & English in 2026. @koneensaatio.fi @utu.fi @titaraproject.bsky.social

💐 Event season of spring/summer 2025, part 2 Ida attended the 8th international symposium on history of English lexicography and lexicology in Tallinn, Estonia, last week. She presented her research on Old English and Latin words for magical practitioners (& what they have to do with each other). +

Closeup photo of the ICEHL conference programme and a notebook on a desk.

Mari-Liisa Varila@mlvarila.bsky.social · last yr.

While working on TiTaRa, our researchers Mari-Liisa and Sara have also found time to edit a special issue of Renaissance Studies!

@saranorja.bsky.social and I edited a special issue on Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print, and the articles are beginning to appear in early view. I’m going to link to all the excellent contributions, but first, our OA intro: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌸 Event season of spring/summer 2025, part 1 🌸 Last week, Sara gave a talk on alchemical manuscripts' visual features at the Reading Visual Devices in Early Books conference, held in Turku. The conference was organised by @emodgral.bsky.social, which TiTaRa's Mari-Liisa is also part of.

Photos of the delicious food at the Reading Visual Devices conference: an avocado starter, risotto, and a coconut pannacotta.

Mari-Liisa Varila@mlvarila.bsky.social · last yr.

While working on TiTaRa, our researchers Mari-Liisa and Sara have also found time to edit a special issue of Renaissance Studies!

Viime viikolla väitöskirjatutkijamme Ida vieraili Cambridgessa ja osallistui Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic -konferenssiin. Ida puhui muinaisenglantilaisesta noita-sanastosta parantamisen ja sairauden yhteyksissä. #titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö #ccasnc

A photo (by Ida Meerto) of King's College, Cambridge, with a parked line of bicycles in the foreground.

Harjoittelijamme Salla kirjoitti symposium-kokemuksestaan Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan Hiiskuttua -verkkojulkaisuun! Lue juttu täältä: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a... #titaraproject #konefoundation #koneensäätiö

Avustajana Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -symposiumissa

Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla (TiTaRa) -hanke järjesti 10.–11.10.2024 Turun yliopistossa Between Science and Magic -konferenssin, jossa kuultiin monialaisesti kiehtovia esityksiä useista kulttuureis...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2y ago

✨TiTaRa wishes everyone a lovely winter solstice, merry Yuletide and a happy New Year ✨ The past year has been full of activities & work and it's now time to quiet down for a bit. Next year will be the last full year of the project! + #titaraproject @koneensaatio.fi

Photograph of Turku Cathedral in the dark. The red-brick cathedral can be seen on the left, its stairs descending to a snowy square where a brightly lit Christmas tree stands. The sky is the calm, dark blue of a winter evening.

I'll be teaching at the California Rare Book School next summer. If you'd like an intro to medieval manuscripts, please consider applying. And if you know anyone who would be interested, please spread the word. www.calrbs.org/introduction...

Introduction to European Medieval Manuscripts (2025) – CalRBS

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Avustajana Tieteen ja taikuuden rajamailla -symposiumissa

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There's still time to submit an abstract for the Between Science and Magic special issue! 🔮📚⚗️ Proposals are welcome from all, whether you presented a paper at our symposium or not, and on all topics related to the themes of the special issue (see CfP in photo). Send us your proposals!

CALL FOR PAPERS
Between Science and Magic
A special issue of Mirator

This special issue stems from the Between Science and Magic Symposium, held 10-11 October 2024 at the University of Turku and jointly organized by the project TiTaRa: Between Science and Magic and the Finnish network of magic studies.
The special issue (Mirator 2/25) will explore the themes of the symposium and the TiTaRa project: the practices and worldviews of people operating between science and magic, as well as those engaging in practices of witchcraft and esotericism. The TiTaRa project explores questions of identity through English historical linguistics and book history, and the Between Science and Magic symposium’s papers dealt with a variety of materials and languages using methods ranging from folklore studies to archaeology.
Mirator (https://journal.fi/mirator) is a multilingual, peer reviewed open access journal published by Glossa, the Society for Medieval Studies in Finland. Mirator’s open access policy means that all texts published in the journal are freely available (to read, download, distribute, or link). The journal publishes texts in Finnish, Swedish, and English.
Submissions
We welcome submissions on all topics related to Western esotericism, magic, witchcraft, and early sciences bordering them such as astrology and alchemy. Submissions on the intersections of magic and science are especially welcome. The special issue will focus on the medieval period, but submissions related to the early modern period will be considered as well. While the special issue is related to the Between Science and Magic Symposium, we welcome article proposals by non-participants as well.
Please send a 250-word abstract and a brief biographical statement by 30 November 2024 to idwira@utu.fi. Submitted manuscripts must comply with the journal’s author guidelines (https://journal.fi/mirator/about/submissions) and will be subject to a double-blind peer review.