It's the start of the Association for Asian Studies 2021 virtual conference and AUP are delighted to be taking part as an official exhibitor. Visit our booth for discounts and promotions!

For the SCMS 2021 conference, we are offering a 40% discount on hardbacks and a 20% discount on paperback books from our Film, Media and Communication list, stretching back to 2015.

We are delighted that five books published by Amsterdam University Press have been longlisted for the 2021 Reformation Research Consortium Book Award. The winner will be announced at the Annual RefoRC Conference on Early Modern Christianity.

In celebration of International Women's Day 2021 we offer you a discount code for the paperback edition of 'Making Shift Happen - Directing Impact' (English edition). Order the book (ISBN 9789463720267) and use discount code MSHMarch to receive a discount of 5 Euros. Available in March for only 20 Euros. The book will be published March 18th in the Netherlands.

Dave Colangelo, author of The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media (Amsterdam University Press, 2019), is the winner of this year’s SCMS 2021 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award.

Yi Guo wins the 2020 Chinese Journalism and Mass Communication Association Award, awarded by the Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Mass Communication 中国新闻史学会.

In remembrance of Thomas Elsaesser, AUP celebrates his vast intellectual legacy and confirms its commitment to his founding book series "Film Culture in Transition" by appointing a team of new series editors.

A blog post written by Paula Albuquerque for University Press Week on exploring surveillance, Covid-19 and the bias inherent in datasets that train AI systems.

Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia's edited volume has been awarded the 2020 Collaborative Project Award by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG).

Interview between NOTCHES, a peer-reviewed, collaborative and international history of sexuality blog, and Kit Heyam, author of The Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697.

Rixt Runia passed away on October 6, 2020. On behalf of all her colleagues at Amsterdam University Press, we will miss her very much.

On 18 September, during the Friends of Ca 'Foscari event, the Vice Rector for Research Andrea Torsello presented Andrea Facchin with a 2020 Research Award.

An interview with Dr. Ronny Spaans and Points: The Blog of the Alcohol & Drugs History Society. Here he discusses his new book, Dangerous Drugs.

On 28th August 2020 we officially launched the new Journal of European Landscapes, our first foray into the world of hosting virtual events. Play back the video or download the transcript.

On July 17 2020, Jitske Jasperse participated in an ‘Ask Me Anything’ organized by Reddit’s Ask Historians to discuss her new book Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power.

Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema is the inaugural title of AUP’s series in Critical Asian Cinemas. Series editor Steve Choe joins with author Gerald Sim to find out more.

On this Ear to Asia podcast presented by Ali Moore and produced by Asia Institute, Dr Lan Anh Hoang provides insights into how uncertainty shapes social practice, identity and belonging in the context of her book Vietnamese Migrants in Russia.

AUP are delighted to announce that The French Language in Russia (2018), co-authored by Derek Offord, Vladislav Rjéoutski, and Gesine Argent, has jointly-won the 2019 R. Gapper Book Prize awarded by the UK Society for French Studies.

Enjoy a 40% discount using the code VIRTUALIMC for a huge selection of monographs and edited collections from our History list, until 31 August 2020.

"Often referred to as “the big tent,” digital humanities have been perceived as open and welcoming. As it happens, the openness, more often than not, required an introduction", writes Barbara Bordalejo and Roopika Risam in this post about their new collection.

The inaugural issue of the Journal of European Landscape, an openly accessible, peer-reviewed academic outlet, is now available.

Amsterdam University Press will flip five Humanities and Social Science journals to full “Diamond” Open Access with an innovative subscribe-to-open pilot ‘AUP Diamond Open HSS’.

Read Kirsten Ostherr's chapter 'Zika Virus, Global Health Communication, and Dataveillance' from the forthcoming Open Access publication Body, Capital, and Screens edited by Christian Bonah and Anja Laukötter.

We at Amsterdam University Press are taking measures to support our colleagues, business partners, authors, and readers during these exceptional times.

ProQuest has partnered with more than 75 publishers, including AUP, to support libraries in providing unlimited access to Ebook Central holdings for all patrons – at no extra charge.

The second public lecture of the 6th edition of Eye’s annual series This is Film! will be on VJ and Eye's Bits&Pieces collection, presented by Rossella Catanese on Wednesday, March 25 2020.

The first public lecture of the 6th edition of Eye’s annual series This is Film! will be on Copyright and presented by Claudy Op den Kamp on Wednesday, March 11 2020.

Allison Ochs discusses her book Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s? on the New Books Network with host Rebekah Buchanan.

Knowledge Unlatched have selected 9 books from AUP for Open Access publication (KU Select 2019). All 9 books are now available to freely download.

The Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies invites abstracts for articles for its 2020 Winter issue. As this is a general issue there is no subject limitation, provided that the article problematizes gender. Abstracts should be submitted in Dutch or English before 22 March 2020.

De Alphaman heeft een gratis te downloaden poster gemaakt van het boek De stille plantage van Albert Helman. Ideaal voor gebruik in het onderwijs bij het nieuwste deel in de Tekst in Context-reeks dus! Maar ook van andere Tekst in Context-delen zijn er passende posters, kijk vooral eens rond op https://dealphaman.nl/.

On 17 December 2019, the new book Chinese Poetry and Translation edited by Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein was launched at SPUI25, Amsterdam. Speaking at the launch was Maghiel van Crevel, Mia You, and the evening was moderated by Zoénie Deng Liwen.

As part of this spotlight on the University of Amsterdam, this interview helps to show the ways in which the field of European Studies is evolving, but also demonstrates the importance of thinking outside of one’s discipline and one’s own perspective.

Wigbertson Julian Isenia's article “Looking for kambrada: Sexuality and social anxieties in the Dutch colonial archive, 1882-1923" (Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 2019-2) has received an Honourable Mention for the 2019 Gregory Sprague Prize by the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History.

Vier ballen in de NRC voor 'Het ABC van de biografie'

Senior Commissioning Editor Maryse Elliott pays tribute to Professor Thomas Elsaesser who, in his passing, leaves behind a monumental legacy in the field of Film and Media Studies. We at Amsterdam University Press will miss him terribly.

Martin Pitts describes his approach in thinking about material culture in terms of a connected Roman empire. He explores Rome’s impact on people in late Iron Age northwest Europe by comparing the contexts and combinations of an influx of new objects.

AUP are delighted to announce that The French Language in Russia (2018), co-authored by Derek Offord, Vladislav Rjéoutski, and Gesine Argent, has won the 2019 Marc Raeff Book Prize awarded by the Eighteenth Century Russian Studies Association (ECRSA)!

Bloomsbury Medieval Studies is now live! This interdisciplinary digital resource, including titles from both AUP and Arc Humanities Press, offers a global perspective on the Middle Ages.

Op 1 oktober werd in het Onderwijsmuseum met veel plezier en onder veel belangstelling het Onderwijsvragenboek gepresenteerd, een boek van Claire Boonstra, Claudette de Graaf Bierbrauwer en Nanda Carstens, allen werkzaam voor Operation Education.

Vanaf september 2019 werkt AUP samen met Listen & Learn, die podcasts verzorgt voor studieboeken.

In this article, Antía Mato Bouzas unfolds the diversity of the Kashmir borderland to make sense of the Kashmir conflict and its recent developments, drawing on her new book Kashmir as a Borderland (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).

The jury of the most important art-historical prize in the Netherlands - the Karel van Mander Prize - have announced the shortlist for publications in the Visual Arts and Crafts 1550-1700 category. Painting and Publishing as Cultural Industries by Claartje Rasterhoff (Amsterdam University Press 2016) has been nominated for the prize!

Het vorige maand gepresenteerde boek Afrikaanse letterkunde kwam in Trouw uitgebreid aan bod op 29 juni: "De gestaag uitdijende letterkunde van het complete continent Afrika in 350 bladzijden persen, dat valt niet mee. Drie wetenschappers wagen zich er toch aan, en dat levert mooie leestips op."

Amsterdam University Press is delighted to announce their collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum and the publication of Van Gogh's Sunflowers Illuminated: Art Meets Science, the inaugural volume in the new international academic book series Van Gogh Museum Studies.

The NECS 2019 Annual Conference takes place in Gdańsk, 13–15 June 2019. During the conference, AUP will be virtually participating by highlighting panels, our authors, series, and exploring the question: what is the place of digital storytelling today?

In a playful evening at SPUI25, Amsterdam, visitors were treated to an extensive overview of the potentials and limitations of citizen engagement in the digital age, by authors of the recently published book The Playful Citizen.

2019 marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death. To celebrate the Year of Rembrandt 2019, we are offering discount on selected Rembrandt books starting from 25% and highlighting Open Access books on Rembrandt and the Golden Age.

On Thursday 21 March we celebrated the publication of Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City with a book launch at SPUI25 in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam University Press to launch new manuscript and data publishing platform powered by Figshare.

Knowledge Unlatched have selected 12 books from AUP for Open Access publication (KU Select 2018). All 12 books are now available to download freely from OAPEN.

The Twelfth Biennial ANZAMEMS Conference will take place at the University of Sydney, 5-8 February 2019. For the duration of the conference, AUP will be virtually participating between Amsterdam, Sydney, and the Twittersphere - crossing the Categories, Boundaries and Horizons that are explored in this year's conference theme.

In this column, Allison Ochs, founder and owner of EDIT Change Management and author of Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?, addresses schools and technology, our relationship with smart phones, and suggests how educators and directors can deal with their demands.

Tom Shippey has listed the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe as his The Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2018, describing it as "The most important and impressive work of collective scholarship for many years."

Open UvA Course Making Media: Production, Practices and Professions

Edgar and Ran Ying Porter, authors of Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation, were invited by the staff of the USS Missouri to present their book aboard the ship, now docked in Pearl Harbor.

De veronderstelling dat Zwarte Piet een uniek Nederlands fenomeen is, blijkt niet te kloppen. Historica Lise Koning toont in een artikel in het aankomende nummer van Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis voor het eerst aan hoe het hulpje van Sinterklaas is gemodelleerd naar populaire Amerikaanse en Britse blackface-optredens uit de negentiende eeuw.

This year's theme #TurnItUP was selected to celebrate the work of the UP community to find, publish, and amplify subjects, authors, and stories that might otherwise be overlooked by the book publishing community.

Juan Zhang and Martin Saxer discuss their edited volume The Art of Neighbouring on the New Books Network with host Ed Pulford.

Claudy Op den Kamp, author of The Greatest Films Never Seen: The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen, will present her book at the 5th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Washington D.C. (September 27 - 29, 2018).

Author Jeffrey Kahan explains the logic behind his recent Arc Humanities Press book, Shakespeare and Superheroes.

Choice's annual Outstanding Academic Titles list for 2017 holds two AUP titles, The Conscience of Cinema: The Works of Joris Ivens 1912-1989 by Thomas Waugh, and Women in the Silent Cinema: Histories of Fame and Fate by Annette Förster.

An interview with professor Thomas Elsaesser, author of Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema, and Vladimir Lukin, PhD candidate at Duke University, discussing media archaeology as a new and vibrant approach to film and media history.

AUP are now preserving our e-journals and e-books with Portico, ensuring that all of our content will be secure and available into the future.

We at Amsterdam University Press are incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of one of our most esteemed authors, Evelien Gans. Evelien was a highly dedicated and influential intellectual and writer whose work, research and activism showed her care and desire to address the social and political issues that most prominently affected her and the lives of those around her.

AUP has been recognised by Knowledge Unlatched (KU) as an Open Access Hero 2018 as one of the top ten most downloaded publishers from 2017.

To mark the publication of Reading Etty Hillesum in Context: Writings, Life, and Influences of a Visionary Author, a collection which offers the most important contributions from the past fifteen years of international research into Etty Hillesum's work and life, the book was presented at the former city hall of Middelburg.

Published three years after AUP best-seller Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema, this collection of essays brings together international experts to explore archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema.

To mark the publication of the first two volumes of Syntax of Hungarian in the Comprehensive Grammar Resources Series, edited by Gábor Alberti and Tibor Laczko, the books were presented at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest on Wednesday 30 January 2018.

An agreement between Amsterdam University Press and the LeidenAsiaCentre will bring two new publications to AUP’s Asian Studies programme each year.