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Leuven University Press Podcast
Interviews with authors of Leuven UP books.
January 28, 2026
Building for Belgium
Embassy buildings are the most tangible evidence of a state’s diplomatic presence abroad. State authorities have invested in the architectural concept…
January 17, 2026
The Business of Pleasure
Elwin Hofman joins Jana Byars to talk about the volume he edited with Magaly Rodríguez García & Pieter Vanhees, The Business of Pleasure: A History of…
November 24, 2025
African Women’s Histories in European Narratives
Little is known about the African women who came to Europe from the 1870s onwards, nor do we dare to imagine them as wealthy, elegantly dressed indivi…
July 4, 2025
Women, Art, Freedom
Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran offers an insightful look at the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran, sparked by the t…
February 16, 2025
Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans
The road to Queen Elizabeth II’s implementation of African reforms was rough, especially in the first two decades following her ascension to the thron…
December 30, 2024
Urban Culture and the Modern City
When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, an…
May 2, 2024
Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility
The question of whether to acknowledge a text as a translation and thereby bring attention to the translator’s role has been a central topic in discus…
September 13, 2023
The Art of Being Dangerous
The idea that women are dangerous - individually or collectively - runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant s…
February 12, 2023
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation
Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago's edited volume Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing (Leuven UP,…
December 24, 2022
Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics
Regarded as the “9th Art”, French bande desinée have a much longer history of serious socio-political engagement than American comics. Since the Alger…
December 3, 2022
Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive
Dealing with the colonial archive entails acknowledging the inability to know everything, accounting for the archive’s limited and incomplete conditio…
June 3, 2022
When Art Isn’t Real
In When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation (Leuven University Press, 2022), Dr. Andrew Shortland and Dr. Patri…
February 1, 2022
Evolving as a Digital Scholar
What does it take to become a digitally agile scholar? This manual explains how academics can comfortably navigate the digital world of today and tomo…
January 31, 2022
Across Anthropology
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been …
March 2, 2021
Strategic Imaginations
This episode of New Books in History features an interview with Anke Gilleir, professor of Modern German Literature at KU Leuven, about her new edited…
February 12, 2021
The Figure of Knowledge
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anth…