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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 4d

📚 Our Fall–Winter 2025 Catalogue is available!
Browse online 👉 lup.be/about-us/cat...

Prefer print? 📖 Send your name and address to [email protected] 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.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 8d

“Frank Quitely is widely celebrated in the comics world, but far less attention has been paid to how deeply his work engages with the cultural, historical, & visual identity of Glasgow & Scotland”

@davidjohnboyd.bsky.social & Julie Briand-Boyd on @leuvenup.bsky.social’s blog
lup.be/2025/06/davi...

David John Boyd and Julie Briand-Boyd | Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity | Leuven University Press

In 'Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity' authors David John Boyd and Julie Briand-Boyd investigate questions of historical and contemporary expressions of Scottishness in transcultural comics genre...

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 15d

📚 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

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American Society of Church History @aschurchhistory.bsky.social · 16d

Today's featured title:

"Christian Churches and Postwar Society: European and North American Perspectives on the Impact of the First World War," eds. Kristien Suenens, Michael Snape and Martin Baumeister, Leuven University Press

@leuvenup.bsky.social

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9789462...

"Christian Churches and Postwar Society: European and North American Perspectives on the Impact of the First World War," eds. Kristien Suenens, Michael Snape and Martin Baumeister, Leuven University Press

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 18d

🎭 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

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Pete Freeth @pjfreeth.bsky.social · 22d

Very pleased to say that Beyond the Translator's Invisibility (edited by Rafael Treviño and myself) has now been made fully open access courtesy of @leuvenup.bsky.social

Find it on JSTOR: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.98...
Or on ProjectMuse: muse.jhu.edu/book/119120

#translation #translationstudies

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 24d

💥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

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 26d

📚💥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'

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

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

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨ 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.' -

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Aug 28

📚✨ Nieuw academiejaar = nieuwe edities handboeken!

👉 Bekijk onze volledige collectie handboeken: lup.be/collection/t...

#Handboeken #Textbooks #Onderwijs #HogerOnderwijs #Universiteit #Docenten #Studeren

boek cover Lineaire algebra – vierde editie

boek cover Interculturaliteit en de geesteswetenschappen – tweede, herziene editie

boek cover Leren in maatschappelijk betrokken onderwijs – derde, grondig herziene editie

Bent u docent en overweegt u een van onze handboeken voor te schrijven? Vraag een beoordelingsexemplaar via marketing@lup.be
Jouw handboek publiceren bij Leuven University Press? Contacteer textbook@lup.be

Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Aug 27

📚 𝗡𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗦𝗘𝗚 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟮 – 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝟮 – 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

🔓 Lees gratis via #openaccess: tseg.nl/issue/view/1...
👉 Bestel de print editie: bit.ly/4lG7rZX

#socialegeschiedenis #socialhistory
@iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Aug 14

✨ Discover our New & Forthcoming Titles ✨
More Fall 2025 titles coming soon!
🔗 Browse here: lup.be/books/coming...

#Arthistory #Animalstudies #ModernArt #Comics #Psychoanalysis #architecture #ReadUP #AcademicBooks

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Aug 13

Available in paperback and ebook
📗'Animal Modernities: Images, Objects, Histories', edited by Daniel Harkett, Katie Hornstein
🔗 lup.be/book/animal-...

📰 Read more in the blog interview with the editors: bit.ly/3V0or2a

#Animals #modernity #arthistory #visualculture #animalstudies

'Animal Modernities' is a valuable addition to the growing literature on artistic representations of human-animal relations, enriching scholarly discussions on both historical and contemporary interactions with animals and nature.” - Roni Grén, University of Turku

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Jul 30

Recensie van 🌳'Forest Urbanisms: New Non-Human and Human Ecologies for the 21st Century' in het tijdschrift 'Ruimte'

📗 Beschikbaar in paperback en Open Access 🔓
🔗 lup.be/book/forest-...

#ForestUrbanisms #Landschapsarchitectuur #StedelijkeBosbouw #BosInDeStad

quote: Forest Urbanism is geen klassiek stedenbouwkundig model, maar een oproep tot een fundamentele· herziening van onze relatie met natuur, bebouwing en landbouw. In plaats van bossen te zien als een economische grondstof, stellen de auteurs van 'Forest Urbanisms' een radicale denkomslag voor: bos als vertrekpunt van ontwikkeling. - Sven Augusteyns, Ruimte, juni-juli-augustus 2025

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Jul 29

Book Review of 📘 'Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran', Pamela Karimi @21inquiries.bsky.social

📖 Read the full review 👉 doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

#IranianArt #WomenArtists #womenlifefreedom #BookReview

What Karimi’s study ultimately demonstrates is that, even in the face of a grim political reality, activist art in Iran has continually reinvented itself for decades, embracing new and creative forms of resistance. - Verena Straub, 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · Jul 25

📚 Looking for Summer Deals on Academic Books?

Browse our Book Sales Corner!
👉 lup.be/collection/book-sales-corner

Plus: Enjoy our summer discount! Use code SUMMER25 for 25% off all orders. Valid until 31 August 2025
👉 lup.be/?wdr_coupon=summer25

#SummerDiscount #ReadUP #BookSales #BacklistBooks

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Ágnes Györke @gyorkeagnes.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our new volume, Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies was published by Leuven University Press in 2024. I was thrilled to read the first reviews:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
ojs.elte.hu/theanachroni...
www.freesideeurope.com/articles/rev...
ojs.elte.hu/cec/article/...

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