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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 🔓
🔗 lup.be/book/the-art...

#UrbanHistory #UrbanStudies #Architecture #BookLaunch #OpenAccess
February 13, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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'
👉 doi.org/10.1080/0735...

#UrbanStudies #Congo #Anthropology #Photography
February 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
"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
👉 lup.be/2026/01/wout...

#Fossilenergy #ecology #domesticlife #consumption #Anthropocene #earlymodernhistory #LowCountries #openaccess
February 11, 2026 at 1:19 PM
✨ February is #BlackHistoryMonth

📚 Discover our list of books in African Studies
👉 lup.be/lup-book-cat...

🎉 Special offer
Use discount code BOOKSALE26 and enjoy 50% off select print books in Postcolonial Studies
👉 lup.be/collection/5...

#AfricanStudies #PostcolonialStudies #AcademicBooks #ReadUP
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
🔓 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
February 5, 2026 at 4:57 PM
📘 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
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
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
📙 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:
lup.be/2026/01/book...

#BookLaunch #Education #Teachers #Conflict #Peace #OpenAccess #ReadUP
January 27, 2026 at 3:18 PM
📙 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
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:
lup.be/2026/01/onli...

#BookLaunch #Philosophy #Mimesis #Plasticity #OpenAccess #ReadUP
January 21, 2026 at 10:47 AM
✨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
📢 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
🔗 lup.be/book-series/...

#LiveableFutures #NewBookSeries #AcademicBooks
January 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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
January 15, 2026 at 9:01 AM
📚 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
Learn more about city life in Africa
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January 12, 2026 at 10:23 AM
🎉 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
January 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
✨ 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.
👉 lup.be/2025/12/merr...

The LUP team

#HappyHolidays #NewYear2026 #UniversityPress #Books
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We are pleased that 📘'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes' by Lisa Marie Daunt has been included on @architectureau.com ’s 'Reading Room' list.
👉 architectureau.com/articles/Rea...

#ArchitecturalHistory #Modernism #ModernArchitecture #AustralianArchitecture
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
✨ 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
🔗 lup.be/book/constru...

#Modernism #Queensland #ArchitecturalHistory #ReligiousArchitecture
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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'
👉 lup.be/book/slagen-...

#Toelatingsexamen #Arts #Tandarts #Dierenarts #UsolvIt
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎭 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.
🔗 lup.be/book/wolfgan...

#opera #DonGiovanni #Mozart #Operatheek #OperaBalletVlaanderen
December 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
✨ 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)
🔗 lup.be/book/disabil...

#Disability #disabilityrights #inclusion #accessibility #diversity #Islam
December 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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).
👉 lup.be/journal-issu...

lup.be/neem-een-abo...

#stadsgeschiedenis
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
📚 𝗡𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗦𝗘𝗚 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟮 – 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝟯 – 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
🔓 Lees gratis online: tseg.nl/issue/view/1...
👉 Bestel de print editie: bit.ly/3KvE8Nr

#economischegeschiedenis #socialegeschiedenis #socialhistory @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Lees meer in het nieuwe nummer van 'Nieuwe Tijdingen': 'Vroegmoderne dieren in de Nederlanden'
🔗 lup.be/book/vroegmo...

#Dieren #Geschiedenis #VroegmoderneTijd #LageLanden
📕Mens-dierrelaties in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden (1500-1850) 🦌🦁
6 casestudies over olifant, leeuw, hert, kasuaris, os en ijsbeer. Red: @judithbrouwer4.bsky.social (Huygens/@meertens-knaw.bsky.social) & djoeke van Netten (@uva.nl).
Boekfragment 👉 tinyurl.com/2s3m98np
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December 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM