Universitaire Pers Leuven (280)

The historical and technological significance of cobalt and its compounds

A transdisciplinary history of the 20th-century office, exploring how its spatial forms, technological systems and managerial ideologies were constructed, challenged and lived with.

New interdisciplinary essays on key topics in mimetic studies, including three contributions by internationally renowned philosopher Catherine Malabou

Analysis of two key medieval reflections at the intersection of our mental representations and external reality

Multiperspective approach towards photography as a nomadic device and photographs as mobile objects of circulation.

Mens-dierrelaties in de vroegmoderne tijd

Original comics scholarship offering methodologies developed from the histories, artistic traditions, and socio-political contexts of comics and visual cultures from the Global South.

This book explores how the homes of ordinary city dwellers sparked our modern dependence on fossil fuels. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, including probate inventories, household manuals, personal journals, medical treatises and contemporary ar

'Cartographies of Catastrophes' is an in-depth exploration of how disasters, caused by war or natural calamity, have been documented and mapped over the past two centuries. This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians, urban planners, and

Since its foundation in 1425, Leuven University has always been a transnational institution. Decentering Leuven University explores how this transnational character has shaped the university across six centuries, with cross-border ties emerging as a

Jean Katambayi Mukendi: Circuits is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the Congolese artist on the occasion of his solo exhibitions at M HKA (Antwerp) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin). Spanning his career from its inception

The impact of women’s contributions to modern architecture and the built environment.

The importance of plant-based food fermentation and the need for analytical methods.

The materiality of photobooks.

How African societies influenced the two major global conflicts of the 20th century.

In recent decades, academic research has come under increasing institutional surveillance and control. Doing Ethnography traces the rise of ethical review procedures, open science mandates, and integrity protocols, examining how these developments sh

The cultural and scientific significance of animal magnetism as performance.

First comprehensive history of Belgian cinema in the post-war decades.

De vele gezichten van Brussel en haar plaatsnamen.

Affect shapes every act of translation and interpreting.

An in-depth investigation of the key actors in the Syrian revolution and jihad, featuring interviews with Syrian revolutionaries and Europeans who joined the jihad.

Turning reading into research: Researching literature through its reception.

Boek Ecologies Of Photography In The American West - Lieven Gevaert Series, uitgegeven door Universitaire Pers Leuven, Kunstgeschiedenis

Presenting a novel multidimensional framework of citizenship confronting the urgent challenges of populism and nativism.

Groundbreaking material-visual history and ethnography of German–Rapanui entanglements.

Inside view of fifty years of the Aristoteles Latinus project, a cornerstone of the study of medieval intellectual history.

Interfacultaire lessenreeks met toekomstgerichte reflecties over mens, maatschappij en wetenschap.

Monumentale klankinventaris van de veertiende-eeuwse Nederlandse dialecten