Publications

This page presents a selection of recent books. For more publications, please visit the personal pages of our staff.

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    Sufism Studies: volumes 1 and 3

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    9 April 2025

    Professor Asghar Seyed-Gohrab published Of Piety and Heresy (volume 1) and researcher Ghajarjazi Remembering ʿUmar Khayyām (volume 3).
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    Sufi Non-Conformism: Antinomian Trends in the Persianate Traditions

    Publication

    9 April 2025

    This book by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab deals with nonconformist aspects of Sufism, and other antinomian movements in the Persianate cultural areas.
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    Pluralizing Political Philosophy: Ecological and Economic Inequalities in Global Perspective

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    4 April 2025

    Ingrid Robeyns has brought together a wide range of political philosophers to advance the debate on how to make analytical political philosophy more inclusive.
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    A Cultural History of Fame in the Renaissance

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    17 February 2025

    How did fame operate in the past? Arnoud Visser and others explore fame and celebrity in the period from 1450 to 1650.
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    The Globalization of Netherlandish Art

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    12 December 2024

    Is there a special place for the Low Countries in art history’s debates on global mobility? Thijs Weststeijn seeks to find answers.
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    Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life: Free and Equal

    Publication

    6 December 2024

    Christoph Baumgartner explores how liberal democracies can ensure equal participation and freedom of religion in societies shaped by Christianity.
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    Junctions: ‘Transformative Kinships’

    Publication

    2 December 2024

    This issue of Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities invites critical reflections on relationships, resistance, and solidarity that challenge and inspire.
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    Islamic Sensory History, Volume 2: 600-1500

    Publication

    11 November 2024

    Islamic Sensory History engages with issues related to the sensorium in different times, places, and social milieus throughout the history of Islamic societies.
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    Women: Female Roles in Art and Society of the Netherlands

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    8 November 2024

    This book, edited by Thijs Weststeijn, among others, foregrounds women as creators, patrons, buyers, and agents of change in the arts of the Low Countries.
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    Becoming Animal

    Publication

    1 November 2024

    Kári Driscoll translates Teresa Präauer's ‘Tier werden’ into ‘Becoming Animal’, which explores cultural zoology and the evolution of words, images and identity.
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    Conversational AI

    Publication

    3 October 2024

    How can brands design their chatbot effectively? In Conversational AI, Charlotte van Hooijdonk and others offer practical guidance.
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    Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period

    Publication

    13 September 2024

    Renée Vulto sheds new light on the history of Dutch political songs through her book Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period.
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    From Pessimism to Promise

    Publication

    9 September 2024

    In her book From Pessimism to Promise, Payal Arora argues that it is not naïve to be optimistic about our digital future.
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    Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society

    Publication

    28 August 2024

    Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention is the new publication by Mirko Schäfer and Karin van Es.
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    Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

    Publication

    15 August 2024

    In Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean, Erik de Lange highlights security within international relations.
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    Nahum: A Trauma for a Trauma

    Publication

    13 August 2024

    Emeritus Distinguished Professor Bob Becking publishes the first volume of Sheffield Phoenix Press’s Trauma Bible Commentary van Sheffield Phoenix Press series.
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    Erasure in Late Antiquity

    Publication

    26 June 2024

    This volume brings together eight essays by eminent scholars, each reflecting on the phenomenon of erasure and the various methodologies used in its investigation.
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    Routledge Handbook on Zionism

    Publication

    10 June 2024

    Laura Almagor has written the chapter ‘Jewish Territorialism and 'Other Zions'’ in the Routledge Handbook on Zionism which will be published this month.
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    City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500. A Comparative Approach

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    6 June 2024

    Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages has a new book published, an interdisciplinary study of medieval thinking about the city in text, image, and material culture.
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    Wereldkerken in Nederland

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    3 June 2024

    Jip Lensink contributed to the book Wereldkerken in Nederland. She recorded stories of migrants from Evangelical and Pentecostal churches as well as international churches.
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    Multilingualism in Academia and Educational Constellations

    Publication

    30 May 2024

    Multilingualism in Academia and Educational Constellations is a new book exploring multilingual policies, theoretical concepts, and academic writing in multilingual contexts.
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    Archiving Activism in the Digital Age

    Publication

    27 May 2024

    In Archiving Activism in the Digital Age, Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney offer new insights into the potential of archives to become sites of renewed critical engagement.
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    Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music

    Publication

    16 May 2024

    In his new book Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music, Michiel Kamp offers an account of the ways in which video games invite us to hear and listen to their music.
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    The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement

    Publication

    14 May 2024

    The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement, co-edited by Jamie Draper, shines a light on the barely touched upon topic of internal displacement.
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    Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992

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    8 May 2024

    In her new book, Liliane Stadler examines Switzerland's role in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992 and why and how this role changed in this period.
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    Out of Shadows: A Graphic Novel Set in Lausanne a Century Ago

    Publication

    2 May 2024

    The graphic novel, a public engagement activity, aims to tell the complex history of peace-making in the inter-war era in a fun but still thought-provoking manner.
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    Postcolonial Theory and Crisis

    Publication

    26 March 2024

    Postcolonial Theory and Crisis, edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and others, aims to find out how to best make sense of postcolonial theory in Europe in the present.
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    Recommendations on the Use of Synthetic Data to Train AI Models

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    7 March 2024

    Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures Payal Arora co-wrote a United Nations University report with guidelines for training AI models through artificially generated data.
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    Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms

    Publication

    26 February 2024

    Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms, co-edited by Iris van der Tuin, discusses over a decade of work in new materialist theorising and knowledge-making practice.
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    Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday

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    21 February 2024

    Doing Digital Migration Studie, edited by Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi, offers a comprehensive entry into a variety of debates, interventions, and discussions.

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