Leuven University Press

24/01/2025

✨ New volume in the 'Translation, Interpreting and Mediation' series✨
📖 'Retranslating the Bible and the Qur’an: Historical Approaches and Current Debates', Pieter Boulogne, Marijke H. de Lang, Joseph Verheyden (eds)

Available in paperback and 🔓
🔗https://bit.ly/4hqw77a

By spanning both historical and current aspects, and by treating the Bible and the Qur’an together, this book breaks new ground and paves the way for future research on the myriad discursive and religious aspects of retranslation.

CETRA - Centre for Translation Studies at KU Leuven

22/01/2025

✨ Book Review ✨
📖 'Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies', Ágnes Györke, Tamás Juhász (eds)

⭐⭐⭐ "By exploring different historical periods and analysing the cultural connections between urban locations in Hungary and those beyond its border, the book offers a deeper understanding of Central and Eastern European modernity before and after the cataclysmic world wars. This approach addresses a significant gap in research – the disconnect between Hungarian and English-speaking art and literature – largely a legacy of the Iron Curtain." - Patkós, G., Urban Studies

Read the full review 👇

Urban Studies book review of Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies (Györke & Juhász, eds) reviewed by Gábor Patkós

20/01/2025

✨New volume in the 'Figures of the Unconscious' series ✨
📗 'Thoughts for the Times on Groups and Masses: A Sigmund Freud Museum Symposium', Daniela Finzi, Jeanne Wolff Bernstein (eds)
🔗 https://bit.ly/4h6sGTy

“In groups the most contradictory ideas can exist side by side and tolerate each other, without any conflict arising from the logical contradiction between them”, wrote Freud in his 1921 book 'Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego'. One hundred years later, in an age of war, social networks, and ubiquitous threats to democracy, the questions raised by Freud are as relevant as ever. In their contributions, scholars from psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology and literary studies present critical re-readings of the text and focus on current issues such as the rise of right-wing populist movements, the role of the narcissistic leader, and mass phenomena in the digital age.

16/01/2025

✨ BOOKS ON SALE ✨
📚Use discount code BOOKSALE25 and save 50% on select print books!
📅 Offer valid until 28 February 2025
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Leuven University Press is a mission-driven academic press of international repute.

13/01/2025

Available in paperback and Open Access 🔓
📖'Marcel Broodthaers and Film: A Second of Eternity', Steven Jacobs, Raf Wollaert (eds)

Covering both well-known titles such as 'Le Corbeau et le renard' (1967), 'La Pluie' (1969), and 'Une Seconde d’éternité' (1970) as well as many lesser-known Broodthaers films, the essays in this book discuss his films as inseparable from his entire oeuvre while situating them in the larger history of experimental film.
🔗https://lup.be/book/marcel-broodthaers-and-film/

Read a Q&A with the editors 👉 https://bit.ly/4062fFW

10/01/2025

✨ Book Review ✨
📙 'Landscapes of Liberation: Mission and Development in Peru’s Southern Highlands, 1958 – 1988', Noah Oehri

⭐⭐⭐Oehri works with an impressive range of sources to present a richly layered discussion of a key era in the history of contemporary Catholicism in Peru. 'Landscapes of Liberation' tells a complex story and will serve as an important reference for scholars and students interested in understanding the liberationist Catholic Church of the time in the dynamic institutional contexts of the Peruvian Andes. - Andrew Orta, Journal of Latin American Studies
🔗 Read the review: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X24000415

KADOC-KU Leuven

08/01/2025

Boekentip! 👉 📙'The Dukes of Arenberg: The Thousand-Year History of a Noble Family'

⭐⭐⭐"Isabelle Vandenhove is er in geslaagd om deze geschiedenis van duizend jaar Arenberg samen te vatten in 220 bladzijden in handzaam formaat, rijkelijk geïllustreerd met foto’s van schilderijen, archiefstukken, zegels, munten etc." - Heemkring Groot-Rotselaar

⭐⭐⭐"Dit schitterend boek hoort thuis in vele bibliotheken waar het Huis Arenberg in het verleden enige rol van betekenis heeft gespeeld." - Guy Lernout, Hallensia, jaargang 46, nr 4

07/01/2025

✨ Recent volume in the Lieven Gevaert Series! ✨

📘 'Moral Seascapes: On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Maritime Emergency', edited by Jonathan Stafford, Henning Trüper, and Burkhardt Wolf.

Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives such as visual culture, experimental art history, literary studies, history and philosophy, 'Moral Seascapes' develops distinctive new insights into the relationship between the moral cultures of modernity and the image of the sea. 🌊

Available in paperback and Open Access
🔗https://lup.be/book/moral-seascapes/


Gevaert Research Centre for Photography

New framework for the aesthetic representation of the sea. We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refugee crisis that continues to play out in the seascape between Europe and Africa (and not only there) yields an ever-growing archive of humanitarian traged...

06/01/2025

🎙️ New Podcast Episode at New Books Network!
Interview with editors Ágnes Györke and Tamás Juhász about their book 📘 'Urban Culture and the Modern City'.

This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns, offering in-depth analyses of the intriguing link between literature, the arts, and material culture in the 20th and 21st centuries.

🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/4gIklVB

23/12/2024

✨ New on the Author's Corner Blog! ✨
💬 Q&A with the editors of 📖'Architectures of Resistance: Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices', Angeliki Sioli, Nishat Awan, Kristopher Palagi (eds)

The volume 'Architectures of Resistance' addresses spatial boundaries as places where social and political conditions are intensified and where new spatial practices of architectural resistance arise.

👉 Read the full Q&A here: https://bit.ly/4fwGB3p

19/12/2024

Nieuw nummer van het tijdschrift 'Stadsgeschiedenis' beschikbaar | Stadsgeschiedenis 19 (2024) 2

Beschikbaar in paperback en e-boek
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19/12/2024

New issue 'TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History': TSEG – Volume 21 – Issue 3 – 2024

🔓 Download : https://tseg.nl/issue/view/1331
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18/12/2024

✨ Book Review ✨
📘 'Who Owns Africa? Neocolonialism, Investment, and the New Scramble', Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina (ed.)
⭐⭐⭐Its multidisciplinary approach enriches the discourse, making it a must-read for anyone looking to understand the complexities of Africa's past and present relationships with global powers in a nuanced and historically informed context. - Ebenezer Bosomprah, Contemporary Journal of African Studies
🔗 Read the review: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/contjas.v11i2.6

17/12/2024

✨Best wishes for this festive season and for the coming year! ✨

We are taking a break during the holiday season. Our offices will be closed from Monday 23 December 2024 until Friday 3 January 2025. Orders placed after Tuesday 17 December 2024 will be processed on Monday 6 January 2025. So please note that the processing time of orders may take longer than usual.

We will be back at your service as of Monday 6 January 2025 and look forward to an exciting and healthy 2025 with new inspiring academic titles. 📚👉 https://lup.be/books/coming-soon/

🎄Happy Holidays!🎄

16/12/2024

✨ Book Review ✨
📙 'Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics', Mark McKinney
⭐⭐⭐Generously illustrated with colour images and complemented by a glossary, McKinney’s latest book is essential for scholars working on postcolonialism, race, and/or comics, within and beyond francophone cultures. Also suitable for classroom use through its accessible, sensitive, and rich analyses, this is an exemplary work of comics scholarship.
🔗 Read the review: https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knae048

13/12/2024

🎉600 Years of KU Leuven🎉
Walk along the trails of Leuven scientists and their laboratories. 🧪🔬

Now available: 📕 'Leuven’s College Laboratories: An Urban Walking Guide through 600 Years of Science', Geert Vanpaemel
🔗 https://lup.be/book/leuvens-college-laboratories/

(Also available in Dutch)

Historical walking guide along the trails of Leuven scientists and their laboratories. Throughout its history, Leuven University has been home to many famous scientists. The names of cartographer Gerard Mercator, discoverer of gas lighting Jan Pieter Minckelers, chemist Jean-Baptist Van Mons, zoolog...

13/12/2024

🎉600 jaar KU Leuven🎉
Wandel langs de sporen van Leuvense wetenschappers en hun laboratoria 🧪🔬

Nu verkrijgbaar: 📗 'Het laatste labo: Een wandeling doorheen 600 jaar wetenschappen in Leuven', Geert Vanpaemel
🔗 https://lup.be/book/het-laatste-labo/

(Ook verkrijgbaar in het Engels)

Historische wandelgids langs de sporen van Leuvense wetenschappers en hun laboratoria Doorheen haar geschiedenis heeft de Leuvense universiteit heel wat bekende wetenschappers gehuisvest. De namen van Mercator, Minckelers, Van Mons, Van Beneden en Lemaître leven voort in het lokale straatbeeld. De ...

13/12/2024

📣 'Thinking with the Harrisons' is featured in the collection of PST ART partner catalogues! The authors of this book ‘think with’ the Harrisons, critically tracing their poetics as a reimaging and reconfiguring of the arts in response to the unfolding planetary crisis.

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