Leuven University Press

15/01/2026

At the Congo Research Network PhD Days at UCLouvain!
📚 Discover our collection of Congo & African Studies books and explore new perspectives in African research.
👉 Browse the titles: https://lup.be/lup-book-category/african-studies/

12/01/2026

📚 We’re excited to share that 'Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds' by Filip De Boeck & Sammy Baloji is included in '12 Books about Urban Africa from 2025'!

Check out the full list 👇

Learn more about city life in Africa

08/01/2026

🎉 We start the new year with our Backlist Book Sale! 📚

Enjoy 50% off 250 selected print books across a wide range of disciplines.

Included fields:
Archaeology | Architecture | Art | Education | General Sciences | History | Law & Economics | Linguistics & Literary Studies | Music | Neo-Latin Studies | Philosophy & Psychoanalysis | Postcolonial Studies | Religion | Social Sciences & Anthropology

🛒 Order online: https://lup.be/?wdr_coupon=booksale26
👉 Use discount code BOOKSALE26 at checkout

✨ Happy New Year! We look forward to an exciting 2026 filled with inspiring new titles.

23/12/2025

✨ Best wishes for the festive season and the coming year! ✨

We’re taking a short break during the holiday season. Our offices will be closed from Wednesday 24 December 2025 until Friday 2 January 2026.

📦 Orders for print copies will be processed on Monday 5 January 2026, so processing times may be a little longer than usual.
📱Ebook orders are immediately available via the Glassboxx app.

We’ll be back at your service on Monday 5 January 2026 and look forward to an exciting and healthy 2026 filled with inspiring academic titles. 👉 https://lup.be/books/coming-soon/

The LUP team

🎁📚 PS: Need a last-minute gift? Buy a Leuven University Press gift card. The digital gift card is delivered instantly by email.
🔗 https://lup.be/gift-card/

22/12/2025

We are pleased that 📘'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes: Modern Church Architecture in Queensland 1945–1977' by Lisa Marie Daunt has been included on ArchitectureAu’s “Reading Room” list of books that interrogate and speculate on the lives of cities and the built environment.

🔗 View the full 'Reading Room' selection:
https://architectureau.com/articles/Reading-room-books-that-interrogate-and-speculate-on-the-lives-of-cities/

-KU Leuven

19/12/2025

✨ New volume in the 'KADOC Artes' series✨
Richly illustrated, available in hardback and ebook

📘 'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes: Modern Church Architecture in Queensland 1945–1977', by Lisa Marie Daunt
🔗 https://lup.be/book/constructing-faith-in-the-antipodes/

“This book seeks to counter the culture cringe that many have for religious architecture in Australia.”
👉 Read a Q&A with the author: https://bit.ly/3KZlBJx

-KU Leuven

17/12/2025

Het toelatingsexamen voor arts, tandarts en dierenarts wordt in 2026 opnieuw schriftelijk en op één locatie georganiseerd.

💡 Een slimme voorbereiding start bij het handboek 📘 'Slagen voor het toelatingsexamen van arts en tandarts'.

🐾Ook geschikt voor het toelatingsexamen dierenarts
✨ Inclusief toegang tot de online oefenmodule Usolv-it Athena, mee ondersteund door de Vlaamse Overheid.
👉 https://lup.be/book/slagen-voor-het-toelatingsexamen-van-arts-en-tandarts/

17/12/2025

🎭 Van 14 december tot 20 januari 2026 speelt 'Don Giovanni' bij Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.
📕 In het Operatheek-boekje 'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Don Giovanni' van Bruno Forment lees je meer over Mozarts “opera der opera’s” en de markante voorgeschiedenis van de Don Juan-legende.
🔗 https://lup.be/book/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart-don-giovanni/

15/12/2025

✨ New volume in the series 'Islam, Culture and Society'✨

Available in paperback and Open Access 🔓
📘 Disability in the Arab World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Monika Baar, Amany Soliman (eds)
🔗 https://lup.be/book/disability-in-the-arab-world/

Research on persons with disabilities is typically limited to the Global North. This interdisciplinary volume, with contributions from psychology, sociology, history, linguistics, and development studies, addresses this discrepancy by providing new insights into disability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Centre for the Study of Islam, Culture and Society

12/12/2025

📙 Nieuw nummer van het tijdschrift 'Stadsgeschiedenis'!

In deze editie:
▪️ Alexander Nuijten – Tussen stad en universiteit: studentengeweld voor de academische vierschaar in Leiden aan het begin van de 18de eeuw.
▪️ Tuur Bisschop – De ruimtes van onzedelijkheid: een sociaal-ruimtelijke analyse van acties van de zedenpolitie in Antwerpse buurten (ca. 1948–1953).
▪️ Review: Bart Tritsmans – De tentoonstelling als brug tussen academisch onderzoek en maatschappelijk debat: de casus Getemde natuur.
▪️ Review: Bas Splieth e.a. – Stadsgeschiedenis in de Lage Landen in nationale en internationale tijdschriften (2024).

Beschikbaar in paperback en e-boek
🔗 https://lup.be/journal-issue/stadsgeschiedenis-20-2025-2/

📚 Geen enkel nummer van 'Stadsgeschiedenis' missen?
✍ https://lup.be/neem-een-abonnement-op-stadsgeschiedenis/


for Urban History - CSG - University of Antwerp

12/12/2025

📚 𝗡𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗦𝗘𝗚 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟮 – 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝟯 – 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

Met bijdragen over:
▪️ Het recht van voorlading in Amsterdam in de zestiende eeuw, JaapJan van Zwieten

▪️ Preventing Total Ruin in the Countryside?: Famine and Economic Policies of the Estates of Brabant during the Subsistence Crisis of 1740–1741, Seb Verlinden

▪️ Tracing Dutch Caribbean Migrants in Black Radical Encounters
Microhistories in Transnational Conjunctures, 1920–1940, Margo Groenewoud

▪️ Data-article - The Paramaribo Ward Register Database: A Fine-grained View of an Urban Slave Society (1828–1847), Thunnis van Oort

🔓 Lees gratis online: https://tseg.nl/issue/view/1845
👉 Bestel de print editie: https://bit.ly/3KvE8Nr

Institute of Social History