We're delighted to have been recognised by Knowledge Unlatched (KU) as an Open Access Hero 2018. Knowledge Unlatched (KU) offers free access to scholarly content for every reader across the world and their online platform provides libraries wo...

Amsterdam University Press is immensely proud to announce the publication of the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe. This monumental encyclopedia, edited by Joep Leerssen, one of the world's leading authorities on the cultural histor...

Amsterdam University Press is proud to announce the publication of Reading Etty Hillesum in Context. Writings, Life, and Influences of a Visionary Author. The collection, which offers the most important contributions from the past fifteen y...

Amsterdam University Press are delighted to announce that the first two volumes of the Syntax of Hungarian (Comprehensive Grammar Resources Series), edited by Gábor Alberti and Tibor Laczko, have been presented at the Hungarian Academy of Scie...

Amsterdam University Press are delighted to announce that two AUP titles have been included in Choice's annual Outstanding Academic Titles list for 2017. The Conscience of Cinema: The Works of Joris Ivens 1912-1989 by Th...

An agreement between Amsterdam University Press and the LeidenAsiaCentre will bring two new publications to AUP’s Asian Studies programme each year. With support from the LeidenAsiaCentre, the Netherlands’ expertise centre for socially re...

Effective from 1 August 2017, Amsterdam University Press (AUP) and Arc Humanities Press have signed a new publishing agreement strengthening their relationship and ambition to continue on the path towards becoming leading academic publishers in the f...

Amsterdam University Press were delighted to attend the book launch of Film Museum Practice and Film Historiography by Bregt Lameris on the 30th May. The launch was held as part of the EYE International Conference The Reel Thing, and took place in t...

In the context of the Leiden Asia Year, and the book launch of AUP's recent publication Held's History of Sumbawa, author Hans Hägerdal presented his book at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden on March 11th....

On Friday March 31st, the book launch of Women in the Silent Cinema, by Annette Förster, took place in the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. The book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the sile...

On Friday 14th March, Thomas Waugh, author of the monograph The Conscience of Cinema: The Works of Joris Ivens 1912-1989, received the Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award from the American Society of Cinema and Media St...

 In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8th,  Amsterdam University Press (AUP) is delighted to be associated to Studio K’s event “Meer Dan Muze - "The Female Gaze", an evening about visual pleasur...

At this years College Art Association Annual Conference, the Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) announced awards of support to four forthcoming books on the topic of Northern art. We are very proud to announce that among the winners, two were AUP...

On Thursday November 17th, the ECP Congress took place in The Hague, the Netherlands. The ECP (Electronic Commerce Platform) has been organising yearly congresses about the diverse developments in the information society since 1998, and has built up ...

The 5th conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network will take place in Kathmandu, Nepal from 12 to 14th December 2016. This conference places special emphasis on borders and cross-border flows of people and objects that have not ...

 Farish A. Noor just published his fourth book with Amsterdam University Press: The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse. Apart from being a brilliant author, historian and political sci...

Ugur Ümit Üngör, Amsterdam University professor and author of Genocide, talked to Mehr News International Service where he asserted that great powers had systematically evaded investigations by the International Criminal Court (ICC), a...

Amsterdam University Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Max Haring as publisher for academic publications, with a special focus on Open Access journals. Max about his new role: “Amsterdam University Press has a longsta...

  Thomas Elsaesser     In less than three weeks the new book by Thomas Elsaesser, Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema, will be launched festively in Amsterdam. This book is...

Amsterdam University is proud to announce its renewed particiaption in Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the global initiative for Open Access monographs. 'Knowledge Unlatched has grown into an initiative that can help make a larger collection of content ava...

This year a whopping three out of five nominations for the Louis Hartlooper Prijs voor de Beste Filmpublicatie are titles from AUP!       Congratulations and the best of luck to our nominations: Filmjaarboek 2015/...

Amsterdam University Press is proud to announce its Complete Your Collection Sale, with 50% discount on all available IMISCOE titles.                       To...

In this month’s edition of Choice you can find reviews of Ripples of hope by Robert M. Press and The Making of the Humanities edited by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, and Thijs Weststeijn. The Making of the Humanities, 2015 Choice - “Attention is...

The AUP Media & Communication best-seller Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema by Tom Gunning, Joshua Yumibe, Giovanna Fossati, Jonathon Rosen has been shortlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award 2016 in the category 'Best Moving Image...

It is with our deepest sympathies that we announce the passing of our highly valued author Louis van Gasteren, who unexpectedly passed away on the 10th of May at the age of 93. Van Gasteren was an influential Dutch film director and artist, whose wor...

Today Gunning and Rosen will present films from the book Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema at the the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater in Los Angeles. The event starts at 8.30 PM local time. To get more tickets and information please click ...

We are excited to announce that the following Spring 2016 titles are now available in Open Access thanks to Knowledge Unlatched! Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film By Peter VerstratenPart of the Framing Film series ...

Amsterdam University Press is proud to announce their successful participation in the innovative Knowledge Unlatched project to make academic monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences available in Open Access.  Knowledge Unlach...

In Rembrandt. The Painter Thinking, Van de Wetering delivers surprising insights into the intellectual aspects of Rembrandt’s artistic process. The book is a sequel to his widely acclaimed Rembrandt. The Painter at Work (1997), which discussed ...

At the end of 2015, Amsterdam University Press will be moving to the following address:Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89, 1018 VR AmsterdamWe’re moving to a wonderful, central location that we will share with a number of like-minded institutions. The bui...

Amsterdam University Press (AUP), together with its partners, Medieval Institute Publications (MIP) and Arc Medieval Press in Kalamazoo MI, are delighted to announce the appointment of Erika Gaffney as Senior Acquisitions Editor in Early Modern Studi...

 Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema is one of the best Film books of 2015 according to the Huffington Post and Fandor. The Huffington Post implored its readers to "track down a copy and prepare to have your mind blown." Fandor called Fanta...

Amsterdam University Press is proud to announce their participation in the recently launched New Knowledge Unlatched Collection. Amsterdam University Press has a longstanding tradition in Open Access publishing: A fifth of our books have been p...

In this interview Dr. Marcus Bull talks about the second edition of his book Thinking Medieval, the use of the crusades in current political issues, and the position of medievalists in relation to the portrayal of the middle ages in popular cu...

Has the sexual revolution received the scholarly attention it deserves? The Mosse Foundation invites three editors of Sexual Revolutions, Sexuality in Movement: Beyond the ‘Sexual Revolution’ and Seks in de nationale verbeelding to discus...

 In this interview, made during the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Luke Demaitre discusses his work on leprosy and medieval medicine. This is our first video collaboration with Medieval Institute Public...

From the 1st till the 3rd of October Dr. Farish Ahmad Noor, the hippest intellectual of South East Asia, will be part of the international literature festival Read My World at the Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam. Read My World forges connections betwe...

It is with regret that we announce the death of our highly valued author and series editor Koos Bosma (1952-2015), who unexpectedly passed away on the morning of September 10. Bosma was Professor of Architectural History and Heritage Studies at ...

Confronting the Golden Age by Junko Aono was reviewed in the September issue of Burlington Magazine. In this stunningly illustrated study, Aono reconsiders the long-dismissed genre painting from 1680-1750. Grounded in close analysis of a range of pa...

The Art of Audit (Roel Janssen) was reviewed by The Economist Image retrieved from www.economist.com                                 Government Audit...

The staff of Amsterdam University Press are saddened by the news of the death of our highly-valued author, Hanna Stouten (1937-2015). AUP published her Marie Bonaparte 1882-1962 (2011). She will be greatly missed. ...

On June 17th, Allison Meier published a visually stunning review of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema on the Hyperallergic.   Frames from ‘La légende des ondines’ (1911) featured in ‘Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema...

  To celebrate its release, Amsterdam University Press is giving away a copy of Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film - Volume 5 in the international book series The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriati...

University of Groningen student Daniel O’Neill spoke with Laura Mulvey and Anna Backman Rogers on 24 April 2015 ahead of the London launch of Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film, Volume 5 in the inte...

Amsterdam University Press and the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Dutch Golden Age invite you to join us on Tuesday the 12th of May between 19:30 and 22:00 for the following lecture held by Gary Schwartz.  A pregnant past. The Dutch seve...

It is with great sadness and a deep sense of loss that we learn of the death of our highly-valued author Egil Törnqvist on March 9th, 2015 at the age of 83. He will be greatly missed.   Egil Törnqvist was professor emeritus of Scandi...

The AUP European History Newsletter for March 2015 is out now - read it here! If you would like to keep up to date with our publications, please subscribe to our newsletter!...

The AUP Social and Political Sciences Newsletter for February 2015 is out now - read it here! If you would like to keep up to date with our publications, please subscribe to our newsletter!...

Amsterdam University Press and the University of Amsterdam invite you to join us on Tuesday the 10th of March between 16:00 and 18:00 o’clock for the presentation of Junko Aono’s new book: Confronting the Golden Age Imitation and Innova...

Lecture (Dutch) 5 februari, 17:00 - 18:30 Naturalistic Research seems to get lost in the abundance of surveys and big data -Doing Qualitative Research advocates a return to this method. Globalisation, urbanisation, migration, and segregation call ...

On January 22, 2015, the Huygensmuseum Hofwijck in Voorburg is hosting a presentation of Christopher Joby's The Multilingualism of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687), which was recently published in the series Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age. ...

The Amsterdam University Press Asian Studies Newsletter for Autumn 2014 is out now....

Amsterdam Universty Press is proud to present the revised and enlarged edition of Discovering the Dutch (2014). We will celebrate this on Wednesday 10 December at 5pm in the Janskerkhof 30 in Utrecht. The presentation will be organised with the ...

On December 12th, the 20th Romeinensymposium will be hosted by the Research Institute for the Heritage and History of the Cultural Landscape and Urban Environment (CLUE, VU University). This seminar will be devoted to current archaeolo...

The Amsterdam University Press European History Newsletter for Autumn 2014 is out now.  ...

Michael Cowan's book on Walter Ruttmann won the prestigious Willy Haas price: A prize for an important international print and DVD publication – not older than two years – on German cinema, chosen from five previously nominated titles.&nb...

Our Atumn 2014 sale has begun! We are now offering discounts of up to 60% across a range of subjects, like the Dutch Golden Age, Archaeology, Asian Studies, Media Arts and Visual Culture and many more.  Click here to browse ...

The Amsterdam University Press Contemporary Society Newsletter for Summer 2014 is out now. See the online version here....

The staff of Amsterdam University Press and the editorial board of MediaMatters are deeply saddened of the untimely passing of our high-valued editor, author, and member of the editorial board, Marianne van den Boomen, who died on 5 november 2014. Sh...

A conversation with Pieter Spierenburg and Guy Geltner about the historical relationship between the themes body, violence, and punishment. Which role do body and the violent acts to which it can be subjected play in the practice of punishment? How c...

Roman Cybriwsky, Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, gave a compelling lecture as he discussed his book, Kyiv, Ukraine: The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013-2014 at t...

Amsterdam University Press is proud to announce the recent release of ten exciting new titles in the months of September and October. These works cover subjects ranging from superb introductions to international migration studies to the com...

We are proud to announce the launch of a new book series titled Transmedia: Participatory Culture and Media Convergence. This Amsterdam University Press series will publish exciting new scholarly work on the complex ways in which our popular media la...

China Renmin University Press acquires Chinese publication rights. Beijing International Book Fair - (BIBF-2014): China Renmin University Press (CRUP) announces to publish the  Chinese translation of Willem Middelkoop's The Big Reset, first pub...

It is with great sadness and a deep sense of loss that we learn of the death of filmmaker, writer and video artist Harun Farocki on July 30th, 2014 at the age of 70. Internationally known for his political films since the late 1960s, and for his vide...

 The staff of Amsterdam University Press are saddened by the news of the death of our highly-valued author, Uwe Becker, author of The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries (2011) and  Employment 'Miracles' (2005). &n...

The staff of Amsterdam University Press are shocked and saddened by the news of the death of our highly-valued author, Willem Witteveen, in the airplane crash over the Ukraine on 17 July. AUP published his De geordende wereld van het recht (2001). Mo...

The Amsterdam University Press Contemporary Society Newsletter for Summer 2014 is out now. See the online version here....

The Asian Studies newsletter is out now! Find out about our new releases, news items, previous releases and how to order by visiting here....

Warped MindsCinema and PsychopathologyBy Temenuga Trifonova Delving deeply into the representation of paranoia in geopolitical Hollywood films  paranoia (Inception, Salt), multiple personality disorders (the Bourne trilogy, Vanilla Sky, Drago...

AUP at the NECS Film & Media 2014 Conference Amsterdam University Press will be attending and co-sponsoring the NECS Creative Film & Creative Industries 2014 conference, set to begin tomorrow in Milan, Italy. The conference will host some...

Amsterdam Univerrsity Press (AUP) will be attending The 6th Southeast Asia Update. The event is organized by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), and supported by...

The observation of a rising Asia and of rapidly growing economic powerhouses in the region has become a truism. Nonetheless, the impressive economic development stories in the region provide the backbone for the growing political strength and asserti...

Turbulence - A Corporate Perspective on Collaborating for Resilience How can multinational companies develop a set of new collaborative business models that can contribute to increased system resilience of cities, regions or countries? How can multi...

The Amsterdam University Press English language catalogue is now available to download via ISSUU. It combines a rich list of academic and trade titles spanning a variety of subjects. Take a look inside the Dutch flower auction in Aalsmeer (Holland Fl...

Vincent Icke’s lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed book that explores key questions in physics and cosmology in the 21st century. View the book trailer here Combining author/astrophysics professor Vincent Icke’s first-hand kno...

We are proud to announce the launch of a new book series titled Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality and Cultural Techniques. This Amsterdam University Press series will publish fresh, exciting and important books in media theory. This includes...

Two recent AUP releases were recognised during the annual British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies held at the University of London on 24-26 April. Belen Vidal's title Figuring the Past received an honourable mention and was praised...

The first English-language book by Willem Middelkoop, The Big Reset, received great  attention during last week’s London Book Fair from publishers hailing from Germany, Russia, South Korea and China. Among them was one of China’s m...

Erik Jan Zurcher's Fighting for a Living is now available in Open Access on Knowledge Unlatched. Download your copy here today: http://collections.knowledgeunlatched.org/collection-availability-1/...

Amsterdam University Press is proud to participate at the April 11, 2014 conference "An Interesting Afternoon- ‘The World in 50 Years and How do we get There?’". Hosted by the Dutch Future Society, this conference will discuss a variety o...

You can get The Big Reset PDF for free by sharing it on social media. Go to this http://7write.com/books/thebigreset and doenload your Copy for free!  Go to the bottom of your book landing page Click on the 'Click to get it for a tweet ...

"A system reset seems imminent. The world's financial system will need to find a new anchor before the year 2020. Since the beginning of the credit crisis, the US realized the dollar will lose its role as the world's reserve currency, and has been pl...

Islam on the Move shortlisted at the The 8th International Convention of Asia Scholars  This fascinating and original study on the rise and spread of the Tablighi Jama’t, arguably the world’s largest Islamic missionary movement...

The most important literary event of the Spanish speaking world is currently celebrating its guest of honor, Amsterdam, during its 20-day event. More than one million guests will visit the fair, now at its 39th recurrence. Amsterdam University Press ...

Film title Found Footage was nominated for "Schönste Buch der Wel in 2013" by the Leipziger Buchmesse. Nominated among 575 entries, it placed as a finalist in the final round. More ...

The latest edition of The Art of Lobbying the EU is released Rinus van Schendelen's bestseller, an inside look at the most advanced practices of influencing the decision-making in the European Union’s corridors of power. First released in 2010...

Book presentation Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art On Friday the 1st of February the book Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art will be presented during the closing event of the workshop Conser...

Islamofobie en discriminatie How do negative connotations about Muslims come about? Where are the acts of violence taking place? Is the Netherlands the front line in the 'clash of civilisations', as has been claimed by politicians, opinion formers a...

The Holocaust and Other Genocides Since Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide after the destruction of the European Jews during WWII, the United Nations signed the Genocide Convention in 1948. Though this convention served the prevention of genoci...

Sex and Drugs Before Rock 'n' Roll Share on printShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailMore Sharing Services0   Men behaving badly during the Dutch Golden Age Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll  is a fascin...

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