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Veerle De Laet Rejoins Leuven University Press as Director
1st October, 2024 in Latest news
Leuven University Press welcomes Veerle De Laet back as director and thanks Nienke Roelants for her strong commitment as interim director.
Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero | Homo Mimeticus II
25th September, 2024 in Author’s corner
In this second installment of the Homo Mimeticus series, international scholars working in philosophy, literary theory, classics, cultural studies, sociology, political theory, and the neurosciences engage creatively with Nidesh Lawtoo’s ‘Homo Mimeti…
Rudy Jos Beerens | Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels
16th September, 2024 in Author’s corner
Author Rudy Jos Beerens explores the intricate relationship between the social structures and artistic production of the 353 painters who became masters in the Brussels Guild of Painters, Goldbeaters, and Stained-Glass Makers between 1599 and 1706.
Anne Douglas and Chris Fremantle | Thinking with the Harrisons
9th September, 2024 in Author’s corner
Authors Anne Douglas and Chris Fremantle ‘think with’ the Harrisons, critically tracing their poetics as a reimaging and reconfiguring of the arts in response to the unfolding planetary crisis.
Pamela Karimi | Women, Art, Freedom
6th September, 2024 in Author’s corner
Engaging with primarily Iran-based artists, Pamela Karimi uncovers their role in shaping guerrilla interventions and street occupations and in articulating distinct forms of peaceful civil disobedience.
Vanessa Montesi | Dance as Intermedial Translation
28th August, 2024 in Author’s corner
‘Dance as Intermedial Translation’ is situated in the breach opened up by recent debates on inherited notions of text, language, and translation that followed the emergence of new technologies.
Elias Van Dyck | Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
28th August, 2024 in Author’s corner
In dit nieuwe boekje in de Operatheek-reeks geeft Elias Van Dyck een beknopte introductie tot Puccini’s oriëntalistische meesterwerk.
Mario Trinidad | Missionaries and Resistance in Guatemala
14th August, 2024 in Author’s corner
‘Missionaries and Resistance in Guatemala’ chronicles the involvement of certain Catholic missionaries in popular and revolutionary movements.
Maj Hartmann | Politics in Publishing
13th August, 2024 in Author’s corner
Maj Hartmann focuses on Japan’s involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following the country’s 1899 accession to the Berne Convention, the first multilateral copyright treaty.
Raphael Chijioke Njoku | Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans
7th August, 2024 in Author’s corner
Raphael Chijioke Njoku examines Queen Elizabeth II’s role in the African decolonization trajectories and the postcolonial state’s quest for genuine political and economic liberation since 1947.
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25th July, 2024 in Latest news
Over the past few months, we have been working hard on a renewed website. Our new website is now online and we are excited to present you the key new features.
Luca Burzelli | Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements
1st July, 2024 in Author’s corner
Luca Burzelli discusses one of the main intellectual figures of the Italian Renaissance: Pietro Pomponazzi (d. 1525).