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AUP and CEUPress will attend the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture Annual Conference, taking place this week at the University of Amsterdam.

Drop by our table to browse our latest titles and journals, and chat with us!

www.aup.nl/en/events/am...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Greg de Cuir's 'Yugoslav Black Wave' is out now!

The Yugoslav Black Wave remains the last major postwar European new wave yet to receive sustained critical attention — a gap this book seeks to address.

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #yugoslavcinema #yugoslavhistory #cinemahistory #newwave
book cover of Greg de Cuir's 'Yugoslav Black Wave' -- all in black and white
May 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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New Release! 'Ceramic Perspectives on Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean', edited by Jill Hilditch and Martina Revello Lami, reimagines how we understand ancient interactions through the lens of ceramics🏺🌍

aup.nl/en/book/9789... #AncientMediterranean #Archaeology
book cover of Ceramic Perspectives on Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean with black and white sketch of ceramic bowls
May 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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The 2025 Louis Peter Grijp lecture will be given by Renée Vulto, author of 'Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period' this week!

🗓️Friday 9 May
⏲️15:00
🗺️Kromme Nieuwe Gracht 20, Utrecht University

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book cover of 'Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period'
May 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Out now in #OpenAccess🏙️🔓

Edited volume 'Gentrification and the Media: Building and Propagating Discourses on Exclusive Urban Change' explores how media shape our understanding of #urbantransformation.

Download the #ebook here 👉https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048557196/gentrification-and-the-media
book cover of 'Gentrification and the Media: Building and Propagating Discourses on Exclusive Urban Change' with photo of protest on
May 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Where would our worker's rights be without the trade union movement? What is democracy without the right to protest?

This 1st May, International Worker's Day (otherwise known as May Day), browse #OpenAccess titles on worker's rights, trade unions and protest movements.

www.aup.nl/en/promotion...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Henk van Rinsum’s 'Utrecht University and Colonial Knowledge' traces the university’s deep entanglement with Dutch colonialism since its founding in 1636 and how this influenced scientific advancement and involvement in #slavery

Download via #OpenAccess

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
'Utrecht University and Colonial Knowledge' book cover with historic colonial map
April 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Leendert van der Miesen's 'Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony' delves into the central role of music among the #earlymodern sciences

For Mersenne, music was invaluable to understand the inaudible harmonies present in the world & universe at large🎼🐚

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #earlymodsky
book cover of 'Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony' with early modern sketch of musicians
April 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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'Audiovisual Thinking and the Essay Film' explores how essay films use intermedial forms and audiovisual techniques, tracing this from cinematic modernity to the present through the works of #Godard, #Akerman & #Varda

Available #OpenAccess 👉 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #cinematichistory #filmsky
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April 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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'Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan' is our latest #OpenAccess edited collection. It highlights how visual representations of plants and animals engendered complex meanings in #earlymodern China and Japan.

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #earlymodsky #environmentalhistory
book cover of 'Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan' including early modern painting of lizard
April 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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A volume more urgent than ever, 'Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples' by Barry L. Stiefel offers a timely reimagining of public memory and preservation within marginalised communities.

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
book cover of Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America
April 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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“A sumptuous feast of scholarly perspectives and case studies"

We are delighted to share this review of 'Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400–1750' published by Women's Art Journal

You can read both review & book in #OpenAccess

womansartjournal.org/2025/04/01/b... #arthistory
book cover of 'Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400–1750' with painting of face
April 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Just released: 'Thinking Women and Art in the Long Eighteenth Century'

A luminous collection of feminist scholarship, reimagining the visual culture of eighteenth-century France and Britain.

Read a free preview🔗 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... #womenshistory #feministhistory #18thcentury
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April 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Celebrate the publication of 'Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World' w/ co-editors Dorota Ostrowska & Tamara Falicov, our own @maryzen.bsky.social and contributors at #SCMS2025!

⏲️TODAY at 5:30pm, 2 min from conference
📍Firelake Grill House, 221 N. Columbus Drive

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
book cover of 'Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World' in purple
April 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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In Ukraine, illegitimate journals in occupied territories are misusing ISSNs to pose as legitimate Ukrainian publications – risking the spread of propaganda in global databases.

Read our full statement on the misuse of ISSNs as a threat to academic integrity: www.aup.nl/en/articles/...
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April 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Later this afternoon, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, the editor of 'Archaeological Perspectives on Contested and Political Landscapes' will present their book at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

We hope you will join this fascinating afternoon of discussions. See poster for details!
book cover with details: Thursday 3rd April, 15:30-17hr. Main building VU, Forum 3
April 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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At AUP, every month is #WomensHistoryMonth. We publish groundbreaking work on women’s early modern authorship, feminist medievalism, and gendered letterwriting to 1900.

We’re proud to publish widely on gender—many titles in #OpenAccess— and we’re committed to continue.

Explore 👉 ow.ly/6U2h50VqNNs
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March 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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We are delighted to exhibit at @scmstudies.bsky.social conference next week in Chicago!

Drop by the book exhibit to browse our latest titles and enjoy a generous conference discount, or arrange a meeting w/ Senior Commissioning Editor @maryzen.bsky.social.

www.aup.nl/en/events/co...
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March 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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We’re in the book exhibit at #ESSHC — do come by and browse our latest titles, pick up a bookmark or chat to a member of our team!
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March 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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From Wednesday to Saturday, find us in the book exhibit at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) in Leiden.

Drop by our table to browse our exciting, interdisciplinary titles and chat to a member of our editorial team!

More info 👉 www.aup.nl/en/events/eu...
image of cartoon dog paws with the text: European Social Science History Conference
March 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Fantastic to chat with @docsprock.bsky.social one of the editors of ‘Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature’ in the book fair today 🌊🧠📚
Nic Helms holds up their book
March 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Are you a graduate student attending #RSA2025?

Come to our stand after 12pm, sign up to our early modern newsletter and you can pick up a free display copy!
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March 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz are celebrating the publication of their edited collection at our #RSA2025 stand right now!

‘Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic’ is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experience in the region. #earlymodsky
Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz hold up their edited volume
March 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Wonderful that Jennifer C Vaught, author of ‘Spencer’s Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton’ dropped by our #RSA2025 #Shax stand!

Her beautiful book explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell and Milton appropriated Spenser’s long and shorter poems for creating comedy, parody and satire.
Jennifer C Vaught holds up her book
March 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Great to see Robin O’Bryan, one of the editors of ‘Giants and Dwarfs in European Art and Culture, ca 1350-1750’ on the stand this morning!
March 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM