📸 Festive book presentation of 'Decentering Leuven University' at Museum M Leuven on Thursday, 12 February.

Available in paperback and open access
👉 lup.be/book/decente...

Photos: Michael De Lausnay

#BookLaunch #OpenAccess #UniversityHistory #LeuvenUniversity #MuseumM #KULeuven #600YearsKULeuven

book cover 'Decentering Leuven University'

quote: "Transnational ties are not primarily created and maintained by “the university” but rather by individual scholars, colleges, and research institutes."

📘 Decentering Leuven University: A Transnational History, Christiaan Engberts

“People at the university have created and maintained such a variety of cross-border ties.”
👉Read more: lup.be/2026/01/chri...

#KULeuven600 #600YearsKULeuven #UniversityHistory #TransnationalHistory

#universityhistory #historyofuniversities #historyofeducation #historyofscholarship

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Mit einem Artikel in der katholischen Kölnischen Volkszeitung beginnt heute vor 95 Jahren die antisemitische Hetzkampagne gegen die Berufung des Staatsrechtlers #HansKelsen an die @UniKoeln. Zum Kontext:

▶ Nicola Wenge, »Arm in Arm mit Hitler«? #Katholizismus und #Antisemitismus in der sozialen […]

book cover 'Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)'

quote 'Investigating student notes from so many centuries ago is a complex challenge, especially because they come in so many forms and you need a lot of skills to tackle them.' + cover 'Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)'

Available in paperback and Open Access 📖🔓
✨ Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion, edited by Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, Raf Van Rooy
🔗 lup.be/.../student-...

#studentnotes #earlymodernhistory #bookhistory #universityhistory #Latin #intellectualhistory

Details:

- Low-key application
- 2000k p/m (max 2 months)
- Wonderful intellectuel community
- Amazing library collection
- Deadline: 2 june 2025

uu.nl/en/news/call...

#twitterstorians #universityhistory #historyofscience

Black and white photograph of men and women sitting down in front of early computer screens.

Could anyone provide a likely year for when this photograph of Durham University students working in a computer lab was taken? @durham-university.bsky.social

#durhamuniversity #universityhistory #computerhistory

A page of a recent digitized work: th 'Isagoge' of Porphyrius, printed in Louvain in 1573 (CaaB498). With corrections and marginal notes, and funny faces decorating the chapter title. #rarebooks #universityhistory #Leuven1425 #Louvain #Aristotle

Forging the Future with the White Heat of the Past? Legacies of ‘the Tech’, and the Making of the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1966–74 The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was created for the advancement of technical education in post-war Britain. Born of an existing technical college, fondly known...

👋 bluesky bud: for those interested in #histTech #HSTM #Universityhistory #Manchesterhistory #Postwar #heritage #modernity #science #education & 'white heat', you may enjoy my paper on the history of UMIST for Bulletin of the John Rylands Library @manchesterup.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/3etd9fmv

book cover: Leuven's College Laboratories

Walk along the trails of Leuven scientists and their laboratories. 🔬
Now available: 📕 'Leuven’s College Laboratories: An Urban Walking Guide through 600 Years of Science', Geert Vanpaemel
🔗 lup.be/book/leuvens...
(Also available in Dutch)

#kuleuven #universityhistory #sciencehistory #leuven