Leuven University Press

04/11/2025

In her book 📘 'Women and Work through a Comparative Lens', Nena Vandeweerdt compares women’s roles in the labor markets of Antwerp and Mechelen (Brabant) and Bilbao (Biscay). By studying these distinct contexts, the book offers a deeper understanding of gender and work in premodern Europe.

Read a Q&A with Nena Vandeweerdt
👉 https://bit.ly/3WDiM2Y

Want to learn more about premodern women?
💻 Join the book launch event on December 11th, 5 PM (GMT+1) via Teams: https://teams.live.com/meet/938335805988?p=uZbE7J6cyxKoicVCPY

03/11/2025

Een team van de KU Leuven maakte oude studennotities leesbaar met behulp van artificiële intelligentie 🤖
Een uniek project dat eeuwenoude kennis opnieuw zichtbaar maakt.

Het boek 📗 'Lessen uit het verleden', onder redactie van Ralph Dekoninck en Violet Soen, biedt een bijzondere blik op het erfgoed van vroegmoderne studenten en geleerden.
🔗https://lup.be/book/lessen-uit-het-verleden/

Een team van de KU Leuven maakte zes­honderd oude studennotities leesbaar via artificiële intelligentie. Ook de studenten van nu deden hun duit in het zakje.

31/10/2025

✨ Nieuw volume in de reeks 'Historisch denken'✨

📘 'Denken en dialogeren over identiteit', door Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse, Bauke Verbergt, Greet Vermeiren en Ellen Claes
🔗 https://lup.be/book/denken-en-dialogeren-over-identiteit/

Dit volume biedt wetenschappelijke inzichten in het concept ‘identiteit’ en vertaalt deze naar de klaspraktijk. Het is geen activistisch werk, maar geeft concrete handvatten en een begrippenkader waarmee leerkrachten en leerlingen in de lessen geschiedenis, Nederlands en cultuur- en maatschappijwetenschappen kunnen nadenken over identiteit en hierover in dialoog kunnen gaan.

In een Q&A vertelt Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse meer over het opzet en het doel van de reeks 'Historisch denken'.
👉 https://lup.be/2025/10/karel-van-nieuwenhuyse-historisch-denken/

31/10/2025

📢 Book Review Alert!
📙 'Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe', by Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg & Jenny Willner

"Soreanu, Staberg and Willner provide a book that is rich and thought-provoking and restores Ferenczi to a place of significance in clinical psychoanalytic theorizing. They examine Ferenczi’s thinking in ways that counter Freud and expand upon his concepts." - John Pellitteri, Journal of Analytical Psychology
🔗 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-5922.13073

30/10/2025

Available in paperback and Open Access 🔓
📖 'Architecture in Oceania (1840-1970): Para-Colonial Influences – Colonial Transactions – Postcolonial Legacies', edited by Michael Falser
🔗 https://lup.be/book/architecture-in-oceania-1840-1970/

Knowledge of colonial architecture in the South Pacific remains sparse, with often-overlooked connections to para-colonial settings and postcolonial continuities. This edited volume seeks to address these gaps, focusing on the period from 1840 to 1970 across the broader South Pacific region. With a rare focus on German colonial influences in the region, the contributions go beyond the predominant narratives of British and French colonial influence. This volume is a valuable resource for students and researchers of architectural history and colonial history in Oceania.

22/10/2025

🔓 Unlocking Knowledge This Open Access Week!
We’re proud to highlight our Open Access titles released this month! 📚✨

📖 Interpretation for Liberation, by Ernst Wolff
📖 Teaching about the Violent Past, by Line Kuppens, Justin Sheria Nfundiko
📖 Entangled Art Histories, edited by Valérie Mavridorakis, Alexander Streitberger, Hilde Van Gelder, Erik Verhagen

True to our mission as a not-for-profit academic publisher, we fully embrace Open Access.
Discover our Open Access collection:
🔗 https://lup.be/open-access/oa-publications/

21/10/2025

🔓 Backlist titles flipped to Open Access!

On the occasion of the international Open Access Week 2025, we are pleased to announce that a selection of recent backlist titles is now freely available in Open Access to readers worldwide. 🌍

📚 In the series 'Translation, Interpreting and Mediation'
• Personality Matters – Olha Lehka-Paul (2020)
• Transfer Thinking in Translation Studies – ed. Maud Gonne et al. (2020)
• Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility – ed. Peter J. Freeth & Rafael Treviño (2024)
• Recharting Territories – ed. Gisele Dionísio da Silva & Maura Radicioni (2022)
• Situatedness and Performativity – ed. Raquel Pacheco Aguilar & Marie-France Guénette (2021) [available November 2025]

💬 In the series Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels
• The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema – David Pinho Barros (2022)
• Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics – Mark McKinney (2021)
• Visualising Small Traumas – Pedro Moura (2022)

🔗https://bit.ly/4nVKsw1

With thanks to our partners who support us in our Open Access strategy: KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access, Open Book Collective, Knowledge Unlatched, JSTOR Path to Open.

Leuven Bibliotheken - Libraries

20/10/2025

🌍 It’s International Open Access Week! 🔓
This year’s theme asks an important question:
👉 Who Owns Our Knowledge?

💡 Knowledge in Your Hands: Retain Copyright with Open Access
With a Creative Commons license, authors keep the copyright to their work — instead of transferring rights to the publisher — while still allowing others to copy, distribute, and make certain uses of it.

At Leuven University Press, we recommend the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which lets your work be shared while ensuring it cannot be modified or used commercially.

📖 Publish your book Open Access with Leuven University Press!
📩 Contact us at [email protected]
🔗 Learn more: https://lup.be/open-access/

17/10/2025

At the BENI Conference! The first conference of the Belgian Network for the Study of 'Islam, Culture and Society'.

📚 We're delighted to highlight the peer-reviewed book series 'Islam, Culture and Society': a strong academic platform for national and international scholars engaged in research on Muslim societies from various perspectives and disciplines.

Recently published
📖 'Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life', edited by Julie McBrien, Annelies Moors

Coming soon
📖 'Disability in the Arab World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives', edited by Monika Baar, Amany Soliman
📖 'Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception, and Legacy, edited by Mehdi Berriah, Arjan Post

👉 Find out more about the series: https://lup.be/book-series/islam-culture-and-society/
👉 Discover more books: https://lup.be/collection/beni-conference/

17/10/2025

The Philippines as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 📚

We’re proud to see two KADOC-KU Leuven titles featured at the Philippine Guest of Honour Pavilion:
• 'Cross-Cultural Heritage', featuring the chapter 'Belgian CICM Missionaries, Territorial Heritage, and the Chico River Dam Resistance in the Philippines' by Leah Abayao.
• 'Missionaries and Resistance in Guatemala' by author Mario Trinidad, who grew up in the Philippines.

Buchmesse

17/10/2025

Available in paperback and Open Access 🔓
📙'Interpretation for Liberation: African Philosophical Hermeneutics', by Ernst Wolff
🔗 https://lup.be/book/interpretation-for-liberation/

"Ernst Wolff shows how interpretation engages with the repercussions of sociohistorical crises […] from which nevertheless emerges an irrepressible desire for emancipation and self-affirmation." - Charles Mbele, Université de Yaoundé 1

"a book that vastly expands the boundaries of African Philosophy" - Olúfé. mi Táíwò, Cornell University

"well-researched and brilliantly written" - Kasereka Kavwahirehi, University of Ottawa

14/10/2025

✨ Online Book Launch ✨
📘 'Women and Work through a Comparative Lens: Gender and the Urban Labor Markets of Premodern Brabant and Biscay', by Nena Vandeweerdt

🗓 December 11th, 5:00–6:15 PM (GMT+1)
💻 Teams link 👉 https://teams.live.com/meet/938335805988?p=uZbE7J6cyxKoicVCPY

In conversation with gender historian Shennan Hutton, Nena Vandeweerdt will discuss the findings of this book, which compares women’s roles in the labor markets of Antwerp and Mechelen (Brabant) and Bilbao (Biscay).

The book is published in the series Mediaevalia Lovaniensia and will be introduced by Prof. Dr. Chanelle Delameillieure (KU Leuven).

Dr. Heleen Wyffels will moderate the event.