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Two side-by-side professional headshot portraits Monica Bravo & Carolin Görgen | Ecologies of Photography in the American West

31st July, 2026 in Author’s corner

Monica Bravo & Carolin Görgen examine the role of photography in documenting, exploiting, and transforming ecosystems across the varied geographies of the American West.

Black-and-white side-by-side portraits of two bearded people, separated by a vertical line, with outdoor backgrounds. Cristián Moreno Pakarati &  Diego Muñoz  | German–Rapanui Entanglements

29th July, 2026 in Author’s corner

‘German–Rapanui Entanglements’ traces interactions between the Germanic world and Rapanui society from past to present through encounters between scholars, missionaries, institutions and Indigenous actors, and through the material and visual traces.

Close-up outdoor headshot of a person facing the camera. The person has short dark hair and light facial hair and is wearing a light blue collared shirt. Ednei Soares | An Acceptable Abnormality?

22nd July, 2026 in Author’s corner

In ‘An Acceptable Abnormality?’, Ednei Soares explores how Freud’s lifelong engagement with fetishism reshaped some of the central concepts of psychoanalysis.

portrait of three women Sofía Monzón, Lucie Spezzatti, Elisabeth Goemans | Affect in Translation and Interpreting

30th June, 2026 in Author’s corner

This volume in the series ‘Translation, Interpreting and Mediation’ explores how emotions, relationships, and human connection guide the work of translators and interpreters around the world. A Q&A with the editors.

Two women are shown in side-by-side portraits. The woman on the left has long gray hair and a neutral expression. The woman on the right has black hair and smiles gently. Hilde Heynen & Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno | Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory

13th May, 2026 in Author’s corner

🎧 In this episode of the ‘A is for Architecture Podcast’, Professors Hilde Heynen and Lucía Pérez-Moreno discuss the book ‘Architecture & Feminist Critical Theory: Selected Writings by Hilde Heynen’.

Smiling man with glasses wearing a patterned shirt, set against a plain background. Chima J. Korieh | Fighting for the Empire

17th April, 2026 in Author’s corner

Fighting for the Empire examines the influence of African societies and ideas on the First and Second World Wars. A conversation with editor Chima J. Korieh.

Black and white portraits of a woman and a man. The woman wears a white shirt and smiles faintly. The man has a mustache and wears a patterned sweater. Maja Babić & Tino Mager | Contentious Spaces

30th March, 2026 in Author’s corner

The editors of ‘Contentious Spaces’ reflect on the architectural heritage of socialist modernism and its conservation in former Eastern Bloc countries, discussing the book’s key themes, development, and scholarly contribution.

A woman with long brown hair and glasses wearing a red top looks thoughtfully upward. Briony Carlin | Encounters with Photobooks

27th March, 2026 in Author’s corner

Briony Carlin illuminates the photobook’s multiplicity: its unique potential for its many copies to matter differently to makers and readers in each momentary encounter.

A woman with long brown hair smiles warmly against a gray background. Nena Vandeweerdt | Women and Work through a Comparative Lens

27th March, 2026 in Author’s corner

🎧 In this episode of ‘The Medieval Podcast’, Danièle Cybulskie speaks with Nena Vandeweerdt about women’s work inside and outside of guild structures, how it was regulated, and how opportunities changed for women across time and space.

Two men stand outdoors in front of tall, lush trees. Mehdi Berriah & Arjan Post | Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought

19th March, 2026 in Author’s corner

In this book, editors Mehdi Berriah and Arjan Post trace the key strands of medieval scholar Ibn Taymiyya’s thought and show how his writings have been interpreted, transformed, challenged, and reappropriated over time. The volume provides fresh insi…

Portrait of a person with dark hair, wearing a blue top and a red patterned scarf. Annelies Moors | Doing Ethnography

9th March, 2026 in Author’s corner

🎧 In this episode of the NIAS podcast ‘Room to Explore’, Annelies Moors discusses her book ‘Doing Ethnography: Institutional Surveillance and the Struggle for Epistemic Diversity’ in conversation with Markus Balkenhol.

A collage of three people: a woman with short hair, a man with a beard in a suit, and a bald man with a goatee Andrea Aramburú, Dibyadyuti Roy, and Joe Sutliff Sanders | Comics and the Global South

6th March, 2026 in Author’s corner

‘Comics and the Global South’ explores how comics from Latin America, Africa, and Asia challenge dominant Western theories of the comics medium.