‘Meet the Author’ event video!

Watch back here! The book presentation of ‘Radicalized Conservatism in Israel’ by our writer #MateoCohen. The event was co-organized by the Legitimacy and Justice Research Cluster, endorsed by the Centre for the Study of Political Parties and Representation, and moderated by the acting Scientific Director of the Institute of Political Science Henriëtte van den Heuvel. […]
Award winning book!

Award winning book! Philipp Krauer has won the Thomas Welskopp Dissertation Award of the German Labour History Association for his book Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies, A Transimperial History of Military Labour, 1848-1914. Photographed from left to right: #StefanBerger, President of the #GLHA, the two prize winners #PhilippKrauer and #KorneliaRung as well as […]
Association for Asian Studies 2025 Annual Conference

Coming to you from the largest Asian Studies Conference worldwide, we are excited to showcase together with our partner Amsterdam University Press our latest books at #AAS2025! From topics surrounding colonial discourses…to gender research… to religious and political debate… our publications specialize in subject matters that reach right across the Asian continent and its cultures. […]
Middle Eastern Library Launch

An extraordinary launch for an extraordinary publication! At the opening of the Middle Eastern Library of Leiden University on 25 September 2024, we were delighted to launch our latest publication Prophets, Poets and Scholars. With the richly varied opening program that included speed lectures by authors, the evening allowed visitors to truly delve into the […]
Bert van Selm-lezing

Lancering van ons nieuwste boek met een stimulerende presentatie van de auteur Prof. Dr. Joris van Eijnatten. Struisvogelgedrag in de geesteswetenschappen: Een pleidooi voor computationele zelfredzaamheid, stelt de vraag (en meer): Hoe toekomstbestendig zijn de geesteswetenschappen in het licht van de voortgaande digitalisering? Leiden Univerity Press is verheugd om dit jaar betrokken te zijn bij de […]