Publications
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Brussel in een België met vier gewesten?
(2025)
De toekomst van Brussel bij een volgende staatshervorming, bekeken vanuit het perspectief van de stad en de Brusselaars.
Bij eerdere staatshervormingen leken de scenario’s op afspraken van een scheidend echtpaar ...
Virtual Works – Actual Things
(2018)
"Beyond musical works: new perspectives on music ontology and performance
What are musical works? How are they constructed in our minds? Which material things allow us to speak about them in the first place? Does a specific ...
Powers of Divergence
(2018)
"Beyond resemblance: creative divergence in music performance
What does it mean to produce resemblance in the performance of written music? Starting from how this question is commonly answered by the practice of interpretation ...
Transpositions
(2018)
"New modes of epistemic relationships in artistic research
Research leads to new insights rupturing the existent fabric of knowledge. Situated in the still evolving field of artistic research, this book investigates a ...
The Belgian Photonovel, 1954-1985
(2023)
The importance of the Belgian contribution to the history of the photonovel.
The Belgian photonovel is the missing link in the amazing history of the photonovel, a comics-inspired form of visual narrative that combines ...
Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game
(2023)
The first multidisciplinary analysis of one of the most impactful and popular contemporary artworks of recent years.
In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the ...
Building a White Nation
(2023)
A unique study of South African propaganda photography during apartheid.
Throughout the apartheid era, South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly ...
Alles verandert altijd - Herziene editie
(2024)
"Alles verandert altijd" is een onmisbaar instrument voor de literair vertaler in opleiding en de beginnende en gevorderde professional bij het vertalen in en uit het Nederlands. Het behandelt helder en bevattelijk de ...
Modern Etruscans
(2023)
New insights on the reception of Etruscan antiquity in the modernist period.
“L’Étrurie est à la mode”, French archaeologist Salomon Reinach bluntly stated in 1927. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, Etruria ...
Working Through Colonial Collections
(2022)
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections
What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department ...
The Hybrid Practitioner
(2022)
The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of ...
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation
(2022)
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her ...
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
(2022)
Ancient glass beads as a window to the ancient world
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated ...
Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain
(2022)
Companion to the exhibition “Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain”, KU Leuven University Library, 28 October 2022 - 15 January 2023
With more than 3,000 titles in almost 14,000 volumes, the 1920s Japanese ...
Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive
(2022)
The colonial past through objects of sound
The Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) consists of an extensive collection of sound recordings, compiled for scientific purposes in the first half of the 20th century. Recorded ...
Unfinished Histories
(2022)
Colonial memory and interdisciplinary memorialization across Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Belgium
Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book ...
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood
(2022)
Practices of community-building in a globalised context
Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others ...
Homo Mimeticus
(2022)
Genealogy of one of the most ancient and
influential concepts in western thought: Mimesis
Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality. Many things have changed since the emergence of an ...
Stilte in de klas
(2022)
Silence runs like a thread through the history of the school. In past centuries, countless teachers have urged children to be quiet. There have also been many publications in which educational authors have reflected on the ...
A Constellation of Courts
(2021)
This volume focuses on the various Habsburg courts and households of the two branches of the dynasty that arose following the division of the territories originally held by Charles V. The authors trace the connections ...
Ubiquity
(2021)
From its invention to the internet age, photography has been considered universal, pervasive, and omnipresent. This anthology of essays posits how the question of when photography came to be everywhere shapes our understanding ...
Predicting the Past
(2021)
Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline ...
Evolving as a Digital Scholar
(2021)
"What does it take to become a digitally agile scholar? This manual explains how academics can comfortably navigate the digital world of today and tomorrow. It foregrounds three key domains of digital agility: getting ...
Dies irae
(2021)
The requiem (or the death mass) is one of the oldest and longest surviving genres in Western music history. For hundreds of years it only existed in its original Gregorian guise, but from about 1450 many great composers ...
Translation Policies in Legal and Institutional Settings
(2021)
This edited volume documents the state of the art in research on translation policies in legal and institutional settings. Offering case studies of past and present translation policies from several parts of the world, it ...
Character Constellations
(2021)
Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, Character Constellations presents a ...
Making Home(s) in Displacement
(2022)
'Making Home(s) in Displacement' critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how ...
Portraits and Poses
(2022)
The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses ...
Congoville (FR)
(2022)
One hundred years after the founding of the École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories ...
Comunidad, pertenencia, extranjería
(2022)
Comunidad, pertenencia, extranjería' reveals the central role played by labour and mercantile migration from the North Sea region in the Viceroyalty of New Spain during a critical period in the formation of colonial ...
At Home in Renaissance Bruges
(2022)
How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such ...
Essays on Plato’s Epistemology
(2016-03-21)
Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato’s philosophy as a whole. ...
Virtues for the People
(2011-05-06)
Plutarch of Chaeronea was by no means an armchair philosopher. He believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered ...
Brokers of Modernity
(2019)
"The story of modernist architects in East Central Europe.
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the ...
Chapter Postface Mapping Historical Landscapes in Transformation
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Chapter About the authors
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Chapter 3 Mapping and Design as Interrelated Processes
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Chapter 2 Data Friction
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Chapter 4 Mapping the Evolution of Designed Landscapes with GIS
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Chapter 1 Cartographic Grounds
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...