LUP Blog
‘Urban Andes’ selected for the 2023 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show!
2nd May, 2023 in Latest news
The annual Book, Jacket, and Journal Show of The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) honors the university publishing community’s design and production professionals. The Association recognizes achievement in design, production, a…
Leuven University Press participates in Path to Open pilot
18th April, 2023 in Latest news
We’re excited to announce our participation in Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Launching as a pilot, Path to…
Book Launch | The Hybrid Practitioner | 27 April, London
4th April, 2023 in Latest news
Dialogues 19 – The Hybrid Practitioner – Invitation Henley Halebrown invites you to Dialogues 19 to the launch of The Hybrid Practitioner with William Mann, Yeoryia Manolopoulou and Helen Thomas alongside Mark Dorrian, Niall Hobhouse, Eiree…
Online event | Black Matrilineage, Photography and Representation | 21 April 2023
1st April, 2023 in Latest news
Black Matrilineage, Photography and Representation (Leuven University Press, 2022) is a new publication that questions how the Black female body navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her body and that of her maternal…
New director for Leuven University Press
1st March, 2023 in Latest news
LEUVEN, March 2023 – Leuven University Press welcomes Nienke Roelants as its new director. As of 1 March 2023, she succeeds Veerle De Laet in this position. Nienke has extensive professional experience at various educational and trade publishing hous…
Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg, Jenny Willner | Ferenczi Dialogues
28th February, 2023 in Author’s corner
Sándor Ferenczi was one of the very few who early on appreciated Freud’s notion of life and death drives in Beyond the Pleasure Principle – and he took things further from there. In Ferenczi Dialogues, the authors Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg, and J…
Hybrid Event | History, Memory and Archives: Contemporary Lens-Based Art from the Democratic Republic of Congo, 8 March, Oxford
23rd February, 2023 in Latest news
The globalisation of the artworld in the 1980s and 1990s and its expansion beyond a Eurocentric matrix led to the proliferation of alternative perspectives onto shared colonial histories in artistic work. This shift coincided with the archival turn i…
Boekpresentatie | Grotius’ Annales en Lipsius’ Monita | 24 maart, Leiden
22nd February, 2023 in Latest news
Recentelijk zijn de delen 10 en 11 van Bibliotheca Latinitis Novae verschenen. U bent van harte welkom op de lezingenmiddag en boekpresentatie. Vrijdag 24 maart 2023Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, Vossiuszaal, Witte Singel 27, 2311BG Leide…
Book Launch | From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso | 10 March, Berlin
21st February, 2023 in Latest news
Opera Village Africa, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner’s notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. In her book From Bayreu…
Online Book Launch | Ferenczi Dialogues | 8 March 2023
17th February, 2023 in Latest news
Join the book launch of Ferenczi Dialogues with authors Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg and Jenny Willner. Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe presents the contribution of Sándor Ferenczi to a psychoanalytic theory of trauma and discusse…
Eva Van de Wiele | Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice
13th February, 2023 in Author’s corner
‘Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice’ offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics.
KuroDalaiJee | Anarchy of the Body
13th February, 2023 in Author’s corner
In ‘Anarchy of the Body’, art historian KuroDalaiJee sheds light on vital pieces of postwar Japanese avant-garde history by contextualizing the social, cultural, and political trajectories of artists across Japan in the 1960s.