Krešimir Vuković

Historian, Assistant Professor @CharlesUniPRG Dr. @oxfordclassics Substack Author of #envhum he/him 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

I'm so excited to say that the most controversial festival of ancient Rome, the LUPERCALIA, will finally have a BOOK-length study! After very positive peer reviews I did some minor revisions and just submitted the final version of the manuscript.
https://t.co/sUbxXgOOAH

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

@romanhistory1 Often repeated but evidence 80 years late. See Hijmans’ recent book and a shorter piece here:

https://t.co/AAxoYCmea7

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

Latin is NOT only the language of empires but also of medicine, law, poetry etc. (sic!) including human rights, such as Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, the first ever gay activist in the modern world.

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

The language of Empires, popes and at the moment.... EU domain names

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

@PawlowskiMario Nice dream! The main problem: there are no real leaders atm in the EU, mainly apparatchiks and career politicians. Not to mention the poor state of most national armies (Poland and France only exceptions)

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

“On the Ides, the altars of rustic Faunus smoke

here where the island breaks the divided waters.”

https://t.co/2gUb8T3IBi

[Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb]

What is this "English is a hybrid derived from hybrids" supposed to mean? English is *by no means* a hybrid language in the actual sense of the word (a fusion between two languages). But let's take a look: The default case (yes, many exceptions, see below) is: 1/

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

@OlaWikander You're absolutely right. Sadly, it's nothing new to me. Many classicists have denied and denigrated IE connections of Greek and Latin (not to mention comparative religion) for decades. It's hard to express the hostility my thesis (and later my book) faced from many classicists.

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

@davidwengrow IE studies can and should be decolonized, as I also argued in this talk to the London Classicists of Colour:

https://t.co/KEPpcgYYzF

That doesn’t mean we can just trash the whole of Indo-European studies, as they pertain to a historical reality which is undeniable.

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

@davidwengrow And yes, homeland is a problematic term as is Indo-European itself, a word coined in the forges of British imperialism and colonialism. But has anyone proposed a better one? I write about this in my book, intro and Chapter 4

https://t.co/mF70CEGJlL

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

@davidwengrow Citing Bruce Lincoln on this is like citing Chomsky to talk about contemporary linguistics. When Lincoln gave a talk at Oxford I asked him why he renounced so much of his early work on Indo-European myth. He explicitly said it was “not in accordance with his Marxist beliefs.”

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

It's curious how anarchist utopia goes for cutting-edge research these days but Indo-European origins, a linguistic fact, is said to be "imaginary" and "alt-right."

[David Wengrow @davidwengrow]

Another day, another Harvard genetics paper on the whereabouts of an (I really must stress this) purely *imaginary “Indo-European homeland” - published in Nature, to the applause of alt-right and white supremacists the world over, but of course, all in the name of “good science”.

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

@davidwengrow @karlfrankjr How does this dispute Indo-European origins? All languages are hybrid

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

So pleased and honoured to read Julia Kindt's fascinating essay on my book and Huaiyu Chen's In the Land of Tigers and Snakes!
Towards a Comparative Political Theology: Ancient Greek, Roman, and Medieval Chinese Perspectives https://t.co/Rv7UenRCjQ

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I’ve just finished reading @JonHaidt’s bestselling new book THE ANXIOUS GENERATION.

I think it may be the most important nonfiction book of the decade, and today I want to tell you why. 🧵

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

Please consider signing this petition to save Celtic Studies at Utrecht from closure ! https://t.co/WR5qgVH4kc via @ChangeGER

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

the way AI makes the Dioscuri screams twincest!

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

📝 Sign to oppose the law that censors scientifically accurate information on gender identity and sexual orientation in Italian schools. Let's protect freedom and LGBT+ rights in Italian schools! https://t.co/v3dZ20I1WP

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

On this day in history the priests of Antinous would gather to celebrate the Beautiful Youth Becoming a God https://t.co/OnTw88gMOK

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

Thank you all, dear friends!

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

After so many years, countless job applications, working at six institutions and in five different countries I am so happy to say that my precariat status is coming to an end. I've just started a new tenure-track post as Assistant Professor at the Department of Greek and...

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

Latin, Charles University in Prague. I am privileged to be working with the kindest colleagues and in such a beautiful city, teaching a truly diverse cohort of students from all over the world and leading my own research team of five brilliant graduates.

[Krešimir Vuković @lupercusvetus]

@emlynkd @instclasstudies @UoLondon Congrats! Wonderful news with a beautiful sight