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Jenni Lares

Jenni Lares is a historian at Tampere University. She is interested in social and cultural history, history of food and drink, and public history. In her PhD thesis (2020), she studied social meanings of drinking in 17th-century Finland. In 2021–2022, she led a postdoctoral project on the use of history in larp, Talvikäräjät (eng. Winter Ting), funded by Finnish Cultural Foundation. She is also an active larper, larp designer, and historical reenactor.