Debat Spui25: De continue constructie van een tijdperk. Een nieuwe zeventiende eeuw?
Hoe is ons beeld van deze ‘gouden eeuw’ de laatste decennia veranderd en wat heeft die periode ons vandaag de dag nog te zeggen? Deze maand verscheen De zeventiende eeuw: een handboek over een beroemd en berucht tijdperk uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis, geschreven door een team van internationale experts. Ter gelegenheid van deze publicatie gaan […]
Amsterdam University Press and Leiden University Press sign international distribution and marketing agreement
Amsterdam University Press (AUP) will internationally distribute and market titles published by Leiden University Press in print and digital format effective 1 July 2022. The agreement will strengthen the relationship between AUP and LUP, presses that operate from historically and culturally significant cities in the development of scholarship. It will ensure that the research of […]
Online boekpresentatie: Het belang van het Antilliaans erfgoed
Gert Oostindie vertelt over het boek Antilliaans erfgoed en het project ‘Traveling Caribbean Heritage’. Georganiseerd door de Vereniging Antilliaans Netwerk en het KITLV. In de onlangs verschenen bundels Antilliaans erfgoed, geredigeerd door Gert Oostindie en Alex van Stipriaan, onderzoekt een reeks van Antilliaanse en Nederlandse auteurs de ontwikkeling en het belang van het culturele erfgoed […]
A lecture and debate at RUSI, leading defence and security think tank
Lt Col Mirjam Grandia Mantas will speak about her recently published book followed by questions and discussion. The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), leading defence and security think tank, organizes a series of monthly lectures and panels as part of a new Military History Programme. Next Thursday October the 14th Lt Col Mirjam Grandia Mantas […]
Staging China: The Politics of Mass Spectacle has won the IBP 2021 Publisher’s Accolade
Out of nearly 1000 titles Staging China: The Politics of Mass Spectacle by Florian Schneider has won the Publisher’s Accolade in the Social Sciences for Outstanding Production Value at the 2021 ICAS Book Prize. The prizes (one of the most prestigious book awards in the field of Asian Studies) were recently awarded in Kyoto, Japan […]
American Journal of Archaeology praises Liquid Footprints for its innovative angles
A book review by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow of Liquid Footprints: Water, Urbanism, and Sustainability in Roman Ostia by Mark A. Locicero in American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 125, No. 4 (October 2021): A methodological bridge between the rich archaeological evidence from Roman Ostia and the field of contemporary urban resource management Locicero’s study aims to […]
“Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination” shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society 2021 Gladstone Prize
Nadine Willems book “Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination” published in the Critical, Connected Histories series has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society 2021 Gladstone Prize. The Gladstone Prize is one of the Royal Historical Society’s two annual book awards. To be eligible for the prize the book must: be its author’s first solely written history […]
Saskia Gieling new managing publisher of Leiden University Press
As of April 1, 2021, Dr. Saskia Gieling will be the new managing publisher of Leiden University Press (LUP), the academic press of Leiden University. Gieling brings a wealth of experience in scholarly publishing to her new position. She succeeds Anniek Meinders who has led LUP as managing publisher for more than eight years. Saskia […]
