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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
book cover ‘Women and Work Through a Comparative Lens’ quote: Women worked. Whether they were formally excluded or not, they found ways to earn a living—because they had to. This may be a familiar point within medieval and early modern gender studies, but it remains an essential one.
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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✨ 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
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October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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📢 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
book cover Ferenczi Dialogues quote: "Soreanu, Staberg and Willner provide a book that is rich and thought-provoking and restores Ferenczi to a place of significance in clinical psychoanalytic theorizing. They examine Ferenczi’s thinking in ways that counter Freud and expand upon his concepts." - John Pellitteri, Journal of Analytical Psychology
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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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
book cover Architecture in Oceania (1840-1970)
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🔓 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
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October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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🌍 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
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October 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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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
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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
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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
book cover Interpretation for Liberation quote: Ernst Wolff shows how interpretation engages with the repercussions of sociohistorical crises […] from which nevertheless emerges an irrepressible desire for emancipation and self-affirmation. - Charles Mbele, Université de Yaoundé 1 quote: Wolff has written a book that vastly expands the boundaries of African Philosophy by […] taking seriously the ideas and discourses of individual African thinkers and engaging them at the most granular level. - Olúfé. mi Táíwò, Cornell University quote: Combining rigorous argumentation with a rare clarity of expression, this well-researched and brilliantly written book will be of enormous value and significance to students and scholars of philosophy and the social sciences. - Kasereka Kavwahirehi, University of Ottawa
October 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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✨ 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
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🎼 ‘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
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October 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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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
book cover Teaching About the Violent Past quote: With case studies from Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire and DRC it provides a sophisticated mixed methods research exploration of the challenges and potential of teaching about the past in highly contested contexts. It is well written, well-structured and a stimulating read that is useful for academics, teachers and policy makers concerned with issues relating to the role of education in conflict affected contexts.' - Mario Novelli, University of Sussex
October 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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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
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📚 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
A hand holds the catalogue "Leuven University Press Fall/Winter 2023" in a bright room. Blurred picture frames decorate the wall.
October 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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
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📚 Our Fall–Winter 2025 Catalogue is available!

Browse the catalogue online 👉 lup.be/about-us/cat...

#Academicbooks #History #Architecture #Art #MigrationStudies #Religion #Literature #AfricanStudies #Philosophy #Psychoanalysis #Textbook #Music #ReadUP
September 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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🎭 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
boek 'Richard Wagner. Parsifal' boekjes in de Operatheek-reeks
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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💥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
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📚💥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
book cover 'The Visionary Art of Franco-Belgian Comics, 1930s to 1960s' spread page from the book 'The Visionary Art of Franco-Belgian Comics, 1930s to 1960s' spread page from the book 'The Visionary Art of Franco-Belgian Comics, 1930s to 1960s' spread page from the book 'The Visionary Art of Franco-Belgian Comics, 1930s to 1960s'
September 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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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
book cover A Violent History quote: Giacomo Macola fills a gap in scholarly literature on Central Africa: linking pre-colonial, colonial and the present times, he unravels the long-term mechanisms producing (extreme) violence in this troubled region. - Guy Vanthemsche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
September 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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
book cover Transgression in the Architectures of After-Modernity
September 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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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
book cover Cold War Art Worlds book cover Collecting Asian Art book cover Women Art Freedom book cover History of Japanese Art
September 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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
book cover London Exile image of person with short dark hair + quote: 'London Exile' aims to contribute to a rewriting of the history of modern art and to expose the significance of global connections and cross-border migration movements. - Burcu Dogramaci, author of 'London Exile' qoute: Burcu Dogramaci’s 'London Exile' constitutes the definitive history of how the cultural workers who fled Nazi Germany—from artists, photographers, designers, and sculptors to publishers and gallerists—were shaped by their emigration. It also tells the story of how these immigrants left indelible marks on their city of refuge and how their work there forever changed London, remaking it into the celebrated modern cultural metropolis that it is today. - Elizabeth Otto, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
September 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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✨ 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
book cover 'Seduction, Drive and Repetition' 'Trauma comes to the fore as the key topic in his thinking and this makes Freud again relevant for contemporary discussions of individual and collective trauma.' -
September 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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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
In een tijd waarin het denken vaak verdeeld wordt tussen een extreem negatieve of een overdreven glorieuze kijk op de kolonisatie, is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwd en praktisch werk iets waaruit leerkrachten zeker dankbaar kunnen putten. De vele voorbeelden, de goede omkadering en de concrete lesmodules zijn een handig instrument voor de geschiedenisles. - Frederik Maertens, Tijdingen uit Leuven (nr. 184, zomer 2025) boek cover Dekolonisering in verleden en heden
August 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM