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Uitnodiging boekpresentatie ‘At Home in Renaissance Bruges’ – vrijdag 24 juni 2022 – Stadsarchief Brugge
18th May, 2022 in Latest news
Op vrijdag 24 juni stelt Julie De Groot haar boek ‘At Home in Renaissance Bruges’ voor. Gastspreker is stadsarchivaris Jan Dhondt. Aansluitend is er een receptie. WAARStadsarchief Brugge, Burg 11/a, 8000 Brugge WANNEERVrijdag 24 juni van 14u tot…
Mê-Linh Riemann | Leaving Spain
13th May, 2022 in Author’s corner
“I hope this book will give readers unique and novel insights into the south-north movement in the context of the economic crisis, and how it evolved over the course of the past decade.” ‘Leaving Spain’ is based on 58 autobiographical na…
Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse | When Art Isn’t Real
1st March, 2022 in Author’s corner
“The ‘arms race’ between the forger and the scientist is quite interesting.” The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. When Art Isn’t Real deals with o…
Download gratis het hoofdstuk ‘De nieuwe Russische triade: staat, traditie, volk’!
1st March, 2022 in Latest news
Rond de eeuwwisseling liet Rusland de moeizame politieke en economische transitiejaren van de post-Sovjetperiode achter zich en veranderde het land in snel tempo. Patriottisme, respect voor tradities en het roemrijke verleden werden de voorbije jaren…
Julie De Groot | At Home in Renaissance Bruges
1st March, 2022 in Author’s corner
“Be careful with formulating large stories and generalisations about evolution in material culture and consumption culture. Each (urban) community has its own story to tell.” Meticulously connecting objects, people and domestic spaces, At Home in Ren…
We are now on Instagram!
24th February, 2022 in Latest news
Until now, you could already find news about our new and forthcoming titles on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. From now on, we will also use Instagram to announce new titles and stay in touch with our readers. Follow @leuvenuniversitypress on Instagr…
Book Launch | Colonial Legacies
10th February, 2022 in Latest news
Gabriella Nugent will present her new book Colonial Legacies with an in-person event on 26 April 2022. Gabriella Nugent, currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2022–2025) in the Department of Art History and World Art Studies at the Un…
Pedro Moura | Visualising Small Traumas
10th February, 2022 in Author’s corner
“By exploring a number of books that bring to the fore painful memories of the dictatorial regime in Portugal, or explore the price of the austerity policies in response to the economic crisis of 2008, or the ongoing capitalist assault on cultural di…
Marie Bourguignon, Bieke Nouws, and Heleen van Gerwen | Translation Policies in Legal and Institutional Settings
21st January, 2022 in Author’s corner
“This book gives a sense of how much attitudes to translation can vary over time and space and what impact legal and institutional translation have on the relationship between citizens and governments.” Using case studies of past and present t…
Lore Van Praag | Co-creation in Migration Studies
21st January, 2022 in Author’s corner
“Many policy makers and scholars strive for more participatory or co-creative methods, but these methods are not always evaluated, and certainly not when applied to specific groups, such as migrants.” How do co-creative methods contribute to efforts…
Gabriella Nugent | Colonial Legacies
6th December, 2021 in Author’s corner
“Art history has been undergoing a process of reckoning, from calls to address the legacies of slavery and colonialism to concomitant surveys of decolonsiation published in some of the discipline’s foremost journals.” In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella…
Roel Smeets | Character Constellations
2nd December, 2021 in Author’s corner
“Fiction co-shapes our understanding of social groups in myriad ways and we need to move beyond the traditional methods of close reading (but not abandon them!) if we want to make generalisable, empirical claims about cultural representation.” Fictio…