Leuven University Press's Avatar

Leuven University Press

@leuvenup

Turning Inspiring Scholarship into Outstanding Publications

3,819
Followers
1,671
Following
258
Posts
15.02.2024
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Leuven University Press @leuvenup

Bookcover „Nomadic Camera. Photography, Displacement and Dis:connectivities“ (Copyright: Leuven University Press)

Bookcover „Nomadic Camera. Photography, Displacement and Dis:connectivities“ (Copyright: Leuven University Press)

🆕 #Publication: “The Nomadic Camera and Digital Visual Journalism: Ethical Considerations in the Making” - @evisualyn.bsky.social contributes an exciting chapter to the book “Nomadic Camera. Photography, Displacement and Dis:connectivities.” (@leuvenup.bsky.social)

👀 tinyurl.com/3zyfyrrt

05.03.2026 10:43 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
celebrating Women's Voices. Check our Inspiring reads

celebrating Women's Voices. Check our Inspiring reads

Coming soon + book covers

Coming soon + book covers

recent publications + book covers

recent publications + book covers

books on sale + book covers

books on sale + book covers

🎉 Celebrating Women’s Voices

For Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, we highlight our recent and forthcoming titles on women’s representation.

📚Explore our Women’s & Gender Studies collection:
lup.be/lup-book-cat...

#InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensStudies

05.03.2026 09:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Video thumbnail

📚 Browse our Spring–Summer 2026 Catalogue
👉 lup.be/about-us/cat...

💥 Use code CATS2026 for 25% off.
🔗 lup.be?wdr_coupon=c...

#History #Architecture #Art #MigrationStudies #GenderStudies #Religion #Literature #AfricanStudies #Philosophy #Archaeology #Psychology #SocialScience #ReadUP

03.03.2026 15:40 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
The quiet power of Belgian embassy design From Washington to New Delhi, Belgium’s diplomatic buildings reveal how a small, divided nation learned to project influence through architecture – favouring tact, context and 'style without exaggerat...

Great to see @wallpapermag.bsky.social feature 📙 'Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945–2020)' by Bram De Maeyer in a recent review.
🔗 Read the full review 👇

#Embassy #Belgium #Architecture #Diplomacy #Globalisation

03.03.2026 14:13 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
portrait of two women + quote 'As women architects, we face society in a different way than our male colleagues, and that situation makes it important to rethink what we should do and fight for.', Hilde Heynen & Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno | Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory

portrait of two women + quote 'As women architects, we face society in a different way than our male colleagues, and that situation makes it important to rethink what we should do and fight for.', Hilde Heynen & Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno | Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory

book cover

book cover

📙 'Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory: Selected Writings by Hilde Heynen'
Interview with Hilde Heynen & Lucía C. Pérez‑Moreno
👉 bit.ly/47jmy7f

🎉 SAH WiA AG Virtual Event – #InternationalWomensDay
🗓 March 10, 2pm (EST)
👉 bit.ly/4cjinMh

#Architecture #Feminist #Women #IWD2026

02.03.2026 13:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

📣 We are pleased to welcome Maryse Elliott as Acquisitions Editor.
🔗 lup.be/2026/02/new-...

Publishing with Leuven University Press?
Contact the acquisitions team: Veerle De Laet, Maryse Elliott, Mirjam Truwant
👉 lup.be/for-authors/...

#AcademicPublishing #AcquisitionsEditor #ScholarlyPublishing

26.02.2026 13:35 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
book cover 'Urban Eyes'

book cover 'Urban Eyes'

Post image Post image Post image

📷 Exile through the camera’s eye in New York

Available in paperback and #openaccess
📖 'Urban Eyes: German-speaking Émigré Photographers in New York in the 1930s and 1940s', Helene Roth
🔗 lup.be/book/urban-e...

#Photography #Exile #NewYork #Migration

25.02.2026 16:10 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
portrait of a man + quote "Late-medieval thinkers demonstrated a capacity for theorizing comparable to that of modern authors." Fabrizio Amerini, author of 'Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis on Concepts and Intentional Objects'

portrait of a man + quote "Late-medieval thinkers demonstrated a capacity for theorizing comparable to that of modern authors." Fabrizio Amerini, author of 'Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis on Concepts and Intentional Objects'

book cover

book cover

📙 'Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis on Concepts and Intentional Objects', by Fabrizio Amerini

🗨️ "Late-medieval thinkers demonstrated a capacity for theorizing comparable to that of modern authors." - Fabrizio Amerini
🔗 bit.ly/4rsHbGp

#medievalphilosophy #medievalstudies #ThomasAquinas

20.02.2026 10:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
book covers - Renaissance studies

book covers - Renaissance studies

The RSA brings together thousands of scholars, embracing the wide scope of Renaissance studies today and fostering a deeper and broader understanding of the period 1300–1700.

📚 Browse our selection of books in Renaissance studies
lup.be/collection/r...

#RSA2026 #renaissance #history #books #readup

18.02.2026 13:26 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
book covers

book covers

book covers

book covers

✨ Heading to CAA Annual Conference?
Discover our new and forthcoming art titles
👉 lup.be/lup-book-cat...

📚 Shop backlist art books at 50% off with code BOOKSALE26
👉 lup.be/collection/5...

#CAA #Art #ArtHistory #artbooks #ReadUP

17.02.2026 15:13 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image

📸 Festive book presentation of 'Decentering Leuven University' at Museum M Leuven on Thursday, 12 February.

Available in paperback and open access
👉 lup.be/book/decente...

Photos: Michael De Lausnay

#BookLaunch #OpenAccess #UniversityHistory #LeuvenUniversity #MuseumM #KULeuven #600YearsKULeuven

16.02.2026 12:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image Post image Post image

📷 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

13.02.2026 10:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
book cover Suturing the City

book cover Suturing the City

quote: The ever-enriching quality of African urban studies is partly the result of the achievements and influence of this volume, the republication of which will surely find it the new audiences it deserves. - Miles Larmer, Journal of Urban Affairs

quote: The ever-enriching quality of African urban studies is partly the result of the achievements and influence of this volume, the republication of which will surely find it the new audiences it deserves. - Miles Larmer, Journal of Urban Affairs

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

11.02.2026 15:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
book cover Fossil Consumerism

book cover Fossil Consumerism

portrait of a man + quote “By the end of the eighteenth century, fossil energy had become an intrinsic part of everyday life, as people increasingly prioritised their own cosy comfort over the health of their surroundings.”, Wout Saelens, author of Fossil Consumerism

portrait of a man + quote “By the end of the eighteenth century, fossil energy had become an intrinsic part of everyday life, as people increasingly prioritised their own cosy comfort over the health of their surroundings.”, Wout Saelens, author of Fossil Consumerism

"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

11.02.2026 13:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image

✨ 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

06.02.2026 14:07 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New Open Access Books through Path to Open + book covers

New Open Access Books through Path to Open + book covers

🔓 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

05.02.2026 16:57 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
book cover 'Decentering Leuven University'

book cover 'Decentering Leuven University'

quote: "Transnational ties are not primarily created and maintained by “the university” but rather by individual scholars, colleges, and research institutes."

quote: "Transnational ties are not primarily created and maintained by “the university” but rather by individual scholars, colleges, and research institutes."

📘 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

04.02.2026 15:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

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

newbooksnetwork.com/the-business...

17.01.2026 12:23 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Preview
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...

Mooie recensie voor 📙 'Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory: Selected Writings', Hilde Heynen (Author), Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno (Editor) 👇

28.01.2026 16:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
book cover Teaching About the Violent Past

book cover Teaching About the Violent Past

Post image

📙 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

27.01.2026 15:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image Post image

📙 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🔓

22.01.2026 15:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Online book launch poster for 'Homo Mimeticus III. Includes book cover with abstract art.

Online book launch poster for 'Homo Mimeticus III. Includes book cover with abstract art.

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

21.01.2026 10:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

✨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

20.01.2026 09:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Advertisement for a new book series 'Liveable Futures' set against a scenic background of a river and bridge under a clear blue sky. Text reads 'Coming Soon. First title expected Fall 2026.

Advertisement for a new book series 'Liveable Futures' set against a scenic background of a river and bridge under a clear blue sky. Text reads 'Coming Soon. First title expected Fall 2026.

📢 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

16.01.2026 09:10 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A display of books on a blue tablecloth, focusing on colonial and urban studies in Africa and the Congo

A display of books on a blue tablecloth, focusing on colonial and urban studies in Africa and the Congo

Post image

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

15.01.2026 09:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
12 books about urban Africa from 2025 Learn more about city life in Africa

📚 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

12.01.2026 10:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bookshelf filled with books, overlaid with bold white text reading 'SALE 50% OFF'

Bookshelf filled with books, overlaid with bold white text reading 'SALE 50% OFF'

🎉 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

08.01.2026 16:16 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

✨ 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

23.12.2025 15:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
book cover 'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes'

book cover 'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes'

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

22.12.2025 15:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
cover Constructing Faith in the Antipodes

cover Constructing Faith in the Antipodes

"This book seeks to counter the culture cringe that many have for religious architecture in Australia, by presenting what are some of the most remarkable works of architecture built in Queensland during the post-war decades." - Lisa Daunt

"This book seeks to counter the culture cringe that many have for religious architecture in Australia, by presenting what are some of the most remarkable works of architecture built in Queensland during the post-war decades." - Lisa Daunt

spread page from Constructing Faith in the Antipodes

spread page from Constructing Faith in the Antipodes

spread page from Constructing Faith in the Antipodes

spread page from Constructing Faith in the Antipodes

✨ 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

19.12.2025 10:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0