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✨ Heading to CAA Annual Conference?
Discover our new and forthcoming art titles
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📚 Shop backlist art books at 50% off with code BOOKSALE26
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#CAA #Art #ArtHistory #artbooks #ReadUP
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February 17, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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📸 Festive book presentation of 'Decentering Leuven University' at Museum M Leuven on Thursday, 12 February.

Available in paperback and open access
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Photos: Michael De Lausnay

#BookLaunch #OpenAccess #UniversityHistory #LeuvenUniversity #MuseumM #KULeuven #600YearsKULeuven
February 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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📷 Book Launch of 'The Art of Urbanization'!

📘 The Art of Urbanization: Urban Questions that Made the Antwerp Agglomeration, 1907–1939, by Tom Broes is available in paperback and open access 🔓
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#UrbanHistory #UrbanStudies #Architecture #BookLaunch #OpenAccess
February 13, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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A decade after its original publication, 'Suturing the City' by Filip De Boeck and Sammy Baloji continues to shape how we understand African urban life.

Read the review by Miles Larmer in the 'Journal of Urban Affairs'
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#UrbanStudies #Congo #Anthropology #Photography
book cover Suturing the City quote: The ever-enriching quality of African urban studies is partly the result of the achievements and influence of this volume, the republication of which will surely find it the new audiences it deserves. - Miles Larmer, Journal of Urban Affairs
February 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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"The roots of climate change lie in the living room."

🔥📙'Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries', by Wout Saelens
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#Fossilenergy #ecology #domesticlife #consumption #Anthropocene #earlymodernhistory #LowCountries #openaccess
book cover Fossil Consumerism portrait of a man + quote “By the end of the eighteenth century, fossil energy had become an intrinsic part of everyday life, as people increasingly prioritised their own cosy comfort over the health of their surroundings.”, Wout Saelens, author of Fossil Consumerism
February 11, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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✨ February is #BlackHistoryMonth

📚 Discover our list of books in African Studies
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🎉 Special offer
Use discount code BOOKSALE26 and enjoy 50% off select print books in Postcolonial Studies
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#AfricanStudies #PostcolonialStudies #AcademicBooks #ReadUP
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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🔓 New Open Access Books through Path to Open, a collaborative Books at JSTOR initiative.

Two of our titles have joined the first 100 books from the 2023 cohort to flip to Open Access
👉 Read more: lup.be/2026/02/new-...

#OpenAccessBooks #PathToOpen #JSTOR #AcademicPublishing @jstor.bsky.social
New Open Access Books through Path to Open + book covers
February 5, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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📘 Decentering Leuven University: A Transnational History, Christiaan Engberts

“People at the university have created and maintained such a variety of cross-border ties.”
👉Read more: lup.be/2026/01/chri...

#KULeuven600 #600YearsKULeuven #UniversityHistory #TransnationalHistory
book cover 'Decentering Leuven University' quote: "Transnational ties are not primarily created and maintained by “the university” but rather by individual scholars, colleges, and research institutes."
February 4, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Hot @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @elwinhofman.bsky.social about @leuvenup.bsky.social The Business of Pleasure: A History of Paid Sex in the Heart of #Europe. Magaly Rodriguez Garcia and Pieter VanHees, eds. #skystorians #HistSex #Belgium

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January 17, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Mooie recensie voor 📙 'Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory: Selected Writings', Hilde Heynen (Author), Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno (Editor) 👇
Hilde Heynens essays tonen waarom architectuur allesbehalve genderneutraal is
Het nieuwe boek van Hilde Heynen, Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory, is een lijvige uitgave met een selectie van de beste essays die ze gedurende drie decennia als hoogleraar architectuurtheorie...
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January 28, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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📙 Book Launch: ‘Teaching About the Violent Past: Opportunities and Challenges for Teachers in Conflict-Affected African Societies’
🗓 Monday, 9 February 2026
⏰ 5:00 PM
📍SPUI25, Amsterdam
🔗 More information:
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#BookLaunch #Education #Teachers #Conflict #Peace #OpenAccess #ReadUP
book cover Teaching About the Violent Past
January 27, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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📙 Behind Office Doors: Use and Users in the History of Office Buildings
🗨️ “The office was a key site of social, technological and cultural change in the twentieth century.” - editor Jens van de Maele

Read more: lup.be/2026/01/jens...

#OfficeBuildings #History #Architecture #Workspaces #OpenAccess🔓
January 22, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Online book launch of 'Homo Mimeticus III' featuring Catherine Malabou in conversation with editors Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk

🗓 Wednesday 4 February
⏰ 4:45–6:00 PM CET
🔗 More information & meeting link:
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#BookLaunch #Philosophy #Mimesis #Plasticity #OpenAccess #ReadUP
Online book launch poster for 'Homo Mimeticus III. Includes book cover with abstract art.
January 21, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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✨New Open Access Book Series Coming Soon: 'Contemporary African Studies in Commerce, Law and Management'

📘 First volume expected: Fall 2026
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/49uosDL

#OpenAccess #BookSeries #Africanstudies #law #commerce #management #ReadUP
January 20, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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📢 Coming soon: New Book Series 'Liveable Futures'

The series provides a platform to articulate the ideals, relations, and knowledge needed to shape liveable futures.
📘 First title expected Fall 2026
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#LiveableFutures #NewBookSeries #AcademicBooks
Advertisement for a new book series 'Liveable Futures' set against a scenic background of a river and bridge under a clear blue sky. Text reads 'Coming Soon. First title expected Fall 2026.
January 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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At the Congo Research Network PhD Days at UCLouvain!
📚 Discover our collection of Congo & African Studies books and explore new perspectives in African research.
👉 Browse the titles: lup.be/lup-book-cat...

#CongoResearch #AfricanStudies #ReadUP
A display of books on a blue tablecloth, focusing on colonial and urban studies in Africa and the Congo
January 15, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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📚 We’re excited to share that 'Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds' by Filip De Boeck & Sammy Baloji is included in '12 Books about Urban Africa from 2025'!

Check out the full list 👇

#UrbanAfrica #Anthropology #Kinshasa #BookRecommendations #2025Reads
12 books about urban Africa from 2025
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January 12, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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🎉 We start the new year with our Backlist Book Sale! 📚
Enjoy 50% off 250 selected print books across a wide range of disciplines.

🛒 Order online: lup.be?wdr_coupon=b...
👉 Use discount code BOOKSALE26 at checkout
✨ Happy New Year!

#BookSale #AcademicBooks #UniversityPress #Humanities #ReadUP
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January 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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✨ Best wishes for the festive season and the coming year!

We’re taking a short break during the holiday season. Our offices will be closed from Wednesday 24 December 2025 until Friday 2 January 2026.
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The LUP team

#HappyHolidays #NewYear2026 #UniversityPress #Books
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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We are pleased that 📘'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes' by Lisa Marie Daunt has been included on @architectureau.com ’s 'Reading Room' list.
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#ArchitecturalHistory #Modernism #ModernArchitecture #AustralianArchitecture
book cover 'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes'
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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✨ New in the 'KADOC Artes' series
Richly illustrated, available in hardback and ebook
📘 'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes: Modern Church Architecture in Queensland 1945–1977', by Lisa Marie Daunt
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#Modernism #Queensland #ArchitecturalHistory #ReligiousArchitecture
cover Constructing Faith in the Antipodes "This book seeks to counter the culture cringe that many have for religious architecture in Australia, by presenting what are some of the most remarkable works of architecture built in Queensland during the post-war decades." - Lisa Daunt spread page from Constructing Faith in the Antipodes spread page from Constructing Faith in the Antipodes
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Het toelatingsexamen arts, tandarts en dierenarts wordt in 2026 opnieuw schriftelijk en op 1 locatie georganiseerd.
💡 Een slimme voorbereiding start bij het boek 📘 'Slagen voor het toelatingsexamen van arts en tandarts'
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#Toelatingsexamen #Arts #Tandarts #Dierenarts #UsolvIt
cover 'Slagen voor het toelatingsexamen van arts en tandarts'
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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🎭 Van 14 december tot 20 januari 2026 speelt 'Don Giovanni' bij Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.
📕 Lees meer over Mozarts “opera der opera’s” en de markante voorgeschiedenis van de Don Juan-legende.
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#opera #DonGiovanni #Mozart #Operatheek #OperaBalletVlaanderen
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December 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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✨ New volume in the series 'Islam, Culture and Society'✨

Available in paperback and #openaccess 🔓
📘 Disability in the Arab World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Monika Baar, Amany Soliman (eds)
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#Disability #disabilityrights #inclusion #accessibility #diversity #Islam
book cover Disability in the Arab World
December 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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In dit nummer van 'Stadsgeschiedenis' oa
▪️ studentengeweld voor de academische vierschaar in Leiden ah begin vd 18de eeuw.
▪️ een sociaal-ruimtelijke analyse van acties vd zedenpolitie in Antwerpse buurten (ca. 1948–1953).
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#stadsgeschiedenis
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December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM