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📘 In 'Women and Work through a Comparative Lens', Nena Vandeweerdt compares women’s roles in the labor markets of Antwerp, Mechelen, and Bilbao, offering new insights into gender and work in premodern Europe.

Read the Q&A 👉 bit.ly/3WDiM2Y

#Genderhistory #MedievalHistory #EarlyModernHistory
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
✨ Nieuw in de reeks 'Historisch denken'✨
📘 'Denken en dialogeren over identiteit', Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse, Bauke Verbergt, Greet Vermeiren, Ellen Claes
🔗 lup.be/book/denken-...

Lees meer over opzet en doel vd reeks
👉 lup.be/2025/10/kare...

#HistorischDenken #Onderwijs #Geschiedenis #Leerkrachten
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📢 Book Review Alert!
📙 'Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe', by Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg & Jenny Willner
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Ferenczi #Psychoanalysis #TraumaStudies #BookReview #AcademicBooks #PsychoanalyticThought #ClinicalPsychology
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Available in paperback and #OpenAccess 🔓
📖 'Architecture in Oceania (1840-1970)', Michael Falser (ed.)
🔗 lup.be/book/archite...

Para-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial entanglements in #SouthPacific architecture.

#colonialarchitecture #architecturalhistory #oceania #PostcolonialStudies
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🔓 Backlist titles flipped to Open Access!

We’re pleased to announce that a selection of recent backlist titles is now freely available in #OpenAccess.

With thanks to our Open Access partners for their continued support.
👉 Read more: bit.ly/4nVKsw1

#OAWeek2025 #OpenScience #FairOpenAccess
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🌍 It’s International Open Access Week! 🔓
This year’s theme asks an important question:
👉 Who Owns Our Knowledge?
💡 Retain Copyright with Open Access

📖 Publish your book Open Access with us!
📩 Contact us at publish@lup.be
🔗 lup.be/open-access/

#OpenAccessWeek #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
October 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
At the first BENI Conference!

📚 We're delighted to present the series 'Islam, Culture and Society': an academic platform for national and international scholars engaged in research on Muslim societies.
👉 lup.be/book-series/...

#Islam #IslamStudies #Muslimsocieties
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Two KADOC titles featured at the Philippine Guest of Honour Pavilion, #FrankfurtBookFair!
• Cross-Cultural Heritage – includes a chapter on the Philippines by Leah Abayao
• Missionaries and Resistance in Guatemala – by Mario Trinidad, who grew up in the Philippines

#MissionHistory #ReadUP
October 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Available in paperback and Open Access 🔓
📙'Interpretation for Liberation: African Philosophical Hermeneutics', by Ernst Wolff
🔗 lup.be/book/interpr...

Introductory and critical overview of African philosophical hermeneutics

#AricanPhilosophy #hermeneutics #AfricanStudies #BlackHistoryMonth #ReadUP
October 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
✨ Online Book Launch
📘 'Women and Work through a Comparative Lens: Gender and the Urban Labor Markets of Premodern Brabant and Biscay', by Nena Vandeweerdt
🗓 Dec 11th, 5:00–6:15 PM (GMT+1)
💻 Teams link 👉 teams.live.com/meet/9383358...

#Genderhistory #OpenAccess #MedievalHistory #EarlyModernHistory
October 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🎼 ‘Music Theory and Analysis’ Volume 12 Issue 1 is available!
🔗 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/leuv...

📚 Don't miss a single issue?
✍️ Go to www.mtajournal.be or contact orders@lup.be and get a subscription!

#musictheory #musicanalysis #musicology #muziektheorie
October 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Available in paperback and #OpenAccess 🔓
📙 'Teaching About the Violent Past: Opportunities and Challenges for Teachers in Conflict-Affected African Societies', by Line Kuppens & Justin Sheria Nfundiko
🔗 lup.be/book/teachin...

#Education #Peace #Reconciliation #TeachingHistory #Africanstudies
October 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞
📚 Browse our list of books
👉https://lup.be/lup-book-category/african-studies/

💥 Enter the discount code BHM2025 with your online order and save 25%. Offer valid until 31 October 2025.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2025 #AfricanStudies #PostcolonialStudies #ReadUP
October 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
📚 Our Fall–Winter 2025 Catalogue is available!
Browse online 👉 lup.be/about-us/cat...

Prefer print? 📖 Send your name and address to marketing@lup.be to request a printed copy!

#History #Architecture #Art #Religion #Literature #Migration #AfricanStudies #Philosophy #Psychoanalysis #Music #ReadUP
October 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Mooie recensie van het boek📕'Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit' in 'Samenleving en Politiek'.

Lees hier het volledige artikel: bit.ly/46Hy4bD

Het boek is beschikbaar in paperback en #openaccess
🔗 lup.be/book/integra...

#migratie #integratie
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
September 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🎭 23/9–22/10 speelt Parsifal van Richard Wagner bij Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.
📕 Ontdek Wagners muzikale & inhoudelijke gelaagdheid in het Operatheek-volume van Piet de Volder: lup.be/book/richard...
📚 Lees ook de andere volumes 👉 lup.be/book-series/...

#opera #Parsifal #RichardWagner #Operatheek
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
💥The exhibition 'Visionary Comics' at the Comic Art Museum is officially open!
📚 Don’t miss the exhibition catalogue 'The Visionary Art of Franco-Belgian Comics', Hugo Frey & Maaheen Ahmed (eds)
🔗 lup.be/book/the-vis...

#VisionaryComics #FrancoBelgianComics #ComicsHistory #Exhibition #Catalogue
September 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📚💥The Visionary Art of Franco-Belgian Comics, 1930s to 1960s, Hugo Frey & Maaheen Ahmed (eds)
👉 lup.be/book/the-vis...

#Exhibition catalogue of 'Visionary Comics: The Collection of Alain Van Passen' 📍 Comic Art Museum, Brussels
www.comicscenter.net/en/gallery/v...

#Comics #ScienceFiction #Fantasy
September 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The first long-durée history of large-scale violence in the Congo Basin
📙 'A Violent History: Power and Conflict in the Congo Basin from the Nineteenth Century to the Present', by Giacomo Macola
🔗 lnkd.in/evsEaWh3

#Congo #BelgianCongo #Zaire #DRC #Violence #precolonial #colonial #postcolonial
September 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Available in paperback and Open Access 🔓
📕'Transgression in the Architectures of After-Modernity: A Paradigm at Work in Times of Crises, edited by Carmen Popescu

Read more 👉 lup.be/book/transgr...

#transgression #architecture #politics #crisis #openaccess #ReadUP
September 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The Fourth Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology takes place 8–13 September at the University of Lisbon.
📚 A perfect occasion to spotlight our titles in Asian Art!
👉 lup.be/lup-book-category/asian-studies

#AsianArt #Asianstudies #ArtHistory #Books #ReadUP
September 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Available in paperback and Open Access 🔓📗 'London Exile: Metropolis, Modernity, and Artistic #Migration, by Burcu Dogramaci
🔗 lup.be/book/london-...

Dogramaci explores 1930s–40s #London as a sanctuary for modern artists.
👉 Read a Q&A with the author: bit.ly/47H6TzZ

#ExileArt #ModernArt #ArtHistory
September 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
✨ New in the 'Figures of the Unconscious' series
📕'Seduction, Drive and Repetition: Freud’s Metaphysics of Trauma', by Herman Westerink, Philippe Van Haute
🔗 lup.be/book/seducti...

Read a Q&A with Herman Westerink
🔗 bit.ly/460FZAm

#psychoanalysis #trauma #Freud #metaphysics
September 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Boekrecensie 📙 'Dekolonisering in verleden en heden'
🔗 lup.be/book/dekolon...

🗨️ een welkom boek om de heikele thema's van ons koloniale verleden grondig aan te pakken - Frederik Maertens, Tijdingen uit Leuven

#dekolonisatie #geschiedenis #geschiedenisles #leerkrachten #historischdenken
August 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM