Inger Kuin
@ingerkuin.bsky.social
Writes and teaches about old things, currently as Associate Professor of Classics General Faculty at the University of Virginia. Part-time Rotterdammer. More at http://www.ingerkuin.com
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Inger Kuin
@ingerkuin.bsky.social
· Aug 12
So, here it goes: three months from today my book "Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic" will come out with Basic Books, my first general audience book in English!
Great news about a great book. And a very true statement right there.
My book on ancient and modern cynicism, The Making of Modern Cynicism (2007, UVA press), is now available again in paperback!
Because cynicism never goes out of fashion.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
Because cynicism never goes out of fashion.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
The Making of Modern Cynicism
<div><p>Once describing a life of exile, self-denial, physical rigor, and mastery of one’s desires, cynicism now describes a life of political quietis
www.upress.virginia.edu
October 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Great news about a great book. And a very true statement right there.
Everything's bigger in America... When I was given the chance by Basic Books to translate and adapt my 2022 Dutch biography of Diogenes they said they wanted more Diogenes and to their credit did not blink when in the end I gave them as much as 50% more.
October 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Everything's bigger in America... When I was given the chance by Basic Books to translate and adapt my 2022 Dutch biography of Diogenes they said they wanted more Diogenes and to their credit did not blink when in the end I gave them as much as 50% more.
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The ISAW NYU program for the Ph.D. in the Ancient World is now accepting applications for Fall 2026 enrollment. More info: isaw.nyu.edu/graduate-stu...
Recommended Deadline: December 18, 2025
Final deadline: January 4, 2026
@isawnyu.bsky.social
Recommended Deadline: December 18, 2025
Final deadline: January 4, 2026
@isawnyu.bsky.social
isaw.nyu.edu
October 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The ISAW NYU program for the Ph.D. in the Ancient World is now accepting applications for Fall 2026 enrollment. More info: isaw.nyu.edu/graduate-stu...
Recommended Deadline: December 18, 2025
Final deadline: January 4, 2026
@isawnyu.bsky.social
Recommended Deadline: December 18, 2025
Final deadline: January 4, 2026
@isawnyu.bsky.social
My 2022 Dutch book about Diogenes was featured as recommended reading in a newspaper special about declutterring this weekend. Can’t say I saw that coming, but it checks out: no needs = no clutter.
September 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My 2022 Dutch book about Diogenes was featured as recommended reading in a newspaper special about declutterring this weekend. Can’t say I saw that coming, but it checks out: no needs = no clutter.
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We are thrilled to announce NASSCAL's first in-person gathering since 2018. Hosted once again by the University of Virginia. Come and tell us about your work. Details at www.nasscal.com/meetings/
September 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We are thrilled to announce NASSCAL's first in-person gathering since 2018. Hosted once again by the University of Virginia. Come and tell us about your work. Details at www.nasscal.com/meetings/
A quick update about my forthcoming Diogenes book with Basic Books: you can now also pre-order the audiobook, narrated by the amazing Cassandra Campbell. www.audible.com/pd/Diogenes-...
Diogenes
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy ...
www.audible.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A quick update about my forthcoming Diogenes book with Basic Books: you can now also pre-order the audiobook, narrated by the amazing Cassandra Campbell. www.audible.com/pd/Diogenes-...
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NASSCAL is looking for scholars who are interested in presenting their research on Christian apocrypha at the First Fridays Workshop during the 25-26 academic year. Workshops are on zoom on the first Friday of the month at 12pm Eastern (US) time. Contact Janet Spittler at nasscalworkshop@gmail.com.
August 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
NASSCAL is looking for scholars who are interested in presenting their research on Christian apocrypha at the First Fridays Workshop during the 25-26 academic year. Workshops are on zoom on the first Friday of the month at 12pm Eastern (US) time. Contact Janet Spittler at nasscalworkshop@gmail.com.
So, here it goes: three months from today my book "Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic" will come out with Basic Books, my first general audience book in English!
August 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
So, here it goes: three months from today my book "Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic" will come out with Basic Books, my first general audience book in English!
Awesome and moving exhibit at Bozar in Brussels ‘When We See Us’, including this amazing Ganymede by Devan Shimoyama:
June 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Awesome and moving exhibit at Bozar in Brussels ‘When We See Us’, including this amazing Ganymede by Devan Shimoyama:
Only nine more days to apply to this awesome conference on religious toleration in classical antiquity, in beautiful Groningen, featuring yours truly and @renskejanssen.bsky.social!
June 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Only nine more days to apply to this awesome conference on religious toleration in classical antiquity, in beautiful Groningen, featuring yours truly and @renskejanssen.bsky.social!
My colleagues from Ancient History @unileiden.bsky.social and I spoke to podcast Oudheid about the antiquities collected by a delightfully odd baron @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social! Available here: tr.ee/g2U3R4bfvj
May 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
My colleagues from Ancient History @unileiden.bsky.social and I spoke to podcast Oudheid about the antiquities collected by a delightfully odd baron @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social! Available here: tr.ee/g2U3R4bfvj
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Come work with us! We’re hiring a Jr Acquisitions Editor for Early Christianity in Leiden, NL. de-gruyter.onlyfy.jobs/job/vjq9tidh...
@dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @loesschouten.bsky.social #CriticalBible #sblaar #AcRel
@dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @loesschouten.bsky.social #CriticalBible #sblaar #AcRel
Junior Acquisitions Editor Early Christianity (f/m/d)
De Gruyter Brill is a global leader in scholarly publishing in the humanities and beyond. Combining a rich heritage dating back to 1683 with a forward-looking mindset, our mission is to publish and cu
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April 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Come work with us! We’re hiring a Jr Acquisitions Editor for Early Christianity in Leiden, NL. de-gruyter.onlyfy.jobs/job/vjq9tidh...
@dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @loesschouten.bsky.social #CriticalBible #sblaar #AcRel
@dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @loesschouten.bsky.social #CriticalBible #sblaar #AcRel
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Attending @aarweb.bsky.social 2025 in Boston? Eager to explore museums, religion and art with scholars and curators? Join the pre-conference workshop "Museums as Ritual Sites: Between Theory and Practice" that @secondhandsacred.bsky.social and I are organizing.
aarweb.org/event/novemb...
aarweb.org/event/novemb...
November Annual Meeting – AAR
Our in-person November Annual Meeting, co-hosted with the Society of Biblical Literature, brings together scholars for the world's largest gathering of those interested in the academic study of religi...
aarweb.org
April 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Attending @aarweb.bsky.social 2025 in Boston? Eager to explore museums, religion and art with scholars and curators? Join the pre-conference workshop "Museums as Ritual Sites: Between Theory and Practice" that @secondhandsacred.bsky.social and I are organizing.
aarweb.org/event/novemb...
aarweb.org/event/novemb...
Something light from yesterday’s university newspaper: news.virginia.edu/content/qa-w...
Q&A: Why Do We Laugh?
UVA professor Inger Kuin studies why people laugh and use humor. She shares some of her findings.
news.virginia.edu
April 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Something light from yesterday’s university newspaper: news.virginia.edu/content/qa-w...
Free books! Come get a free copy of my precious (humor, religion & philosophy in the Roman East via Lucian) and so many other awesome books, at UVA tomorrow.
April 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Free books! Come get a free copy of my precious (humor, religion & philosophy in the Roman East via Lucian) and so many other awesome books, at UVA tomorrow.
This really hit the spot for me today
April 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This really hit the spot for me today
Some recently published thoughts on atheism and imperial space in the Roman Empire, by way of Lucian. Please message or email me for a full PDF! www.academia.edu/127673167/Em...
Empire, Absence, and Disbelief in Lucian's Toxaris
PLEASE EMAIL ME AT IK6MG - AT - VIRGINIA.EDU FOR A FULL PDF! My aim in this chapter is to explore how the strongly localized placedness of the ancient gods featured in the conceptualization of religio...
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February 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Some recently published thoughts on atheism and imperial space in the Roman Empire, by way of Lucian. Please message or email me for a full PDF! www.academia.edu/127673167/Em...
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Willem Schinkel en ik zijn in 2025 maar eens een blog begonnen. De eerste post staat online! Het gaat over pessimisme organiseren.
De posts kun je volgen via dit account. Het wordt vast nog veel leuker. Deel en volg enzo.
De posts kun je volgen via dit account. Het wordt vast nog veel leuker. Deel en volg enzo.
De eerste post op Organized Pessimism staat online.
Organized Pessimism is een blog waar Rogier van Reekum en Willem Schinkel samen schrijven over hoe ons pessimisme te organiseren.
Een blog beginnen in 2025...what could go wrong?
organizedpessimism.noblogs.org/post/2025/01...
Organized Pessimism is een blog waar Rogier van Reekum en Willem Schinkel samen schrijven over hoe ons pessimisme te organiseren.
Een blog beginnen in 2025...what could go wrong?
organizedpessimism.noblogs.org/post/2025/01...
Pessimisme organiseren – Organized Pessimism
organizedpessimism.noblogs.org
January 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Willem Schinkel en ik zijn in 2025 maar eens een blog begonnen. De eerste post staat online! Het gaat over pessimisme organiseren.
De posts kun je volgen via dit account. Het wordt vast nog veel leuker. Deel en volg enzo.
De posts kun je volgen via dit account. Het wordt vast nog veel leuker. Deel en volg enzo.
Lees dit boek! De mythen, de stenen, de mensen - alles komt voorbij.
December 19, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Lees dit boek! De mythen, de stenen, de mensen - alles komt voorbij.
Ice skated on the Campus Martius (in Detroit) today! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 26, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Ice skated on the Campus Martius (in Detroit) today! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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An excellent, thorough article by Erin O’Hara on the state of interventions to address homelessness in the Charlottesville area
www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-year-after...
www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-year-after...
A year after Charlottesville City Manager's ‘homeless intervention strategy,’ a bold plan to assist area's growing unhoused population unfolds
If the Council approves the recommendation, the community eventually could have an overnight low-barrier shelter, transitional housing and more services.
www.cvilletomorrow.org
November 21, 2024 at 9:39 PM
An excellent, thorough article by Erin O’Hara on the state of interventions to address homelessness in the Charlottesville area
www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-year-after...
www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-year-after...
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This powerful piece about roads in the Cville/Albemarle area should get more views.
open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
Foolish Highways: dangerous for pedestrians & drivers alike
What’s going on here? Why do we accept the carnage on our roads as a fact of life?
open.substack.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:43 AM
This powerful piece about roads in the Cville/Albemarle area should get more views.
open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
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"Universiteiten zijn eigenlijk too big to fail: ze kunnen helemaal niet failliet gaan, dus een klein beetje academische ongehoorzaamheid is wel op z’n plaats."
www.folia.nl/nl/actueel/1...
www.folia.nl/nl/actueel/1...
Zesduizend mensen verwacht in Utrecht bij demonstratie tegen bezuinigingen hoger onderwijs
www.folia.nl
November 12, 2024 at 2:01 PM
"Universiteiten zijn eigenlijk too big to fail: ze kunnen helemaal niet failliet gaan, dus een klein beetje academische ongehoorzaamheid is wel op z’n plaats."
www.folia.nl/nl/actueel/1...
www.folia.nl/nl/actueel/1...
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Ladder faculty talking themselves into sacrificing the careers of their colleagues on the altar of the "freshness" and "pedagogical innovation" that new hires are expected to bring to workhorse teaching programs. Hmm...where have I heard that argument before?
www.chronicle.com/article/at-s...
www.chronicle.com/article/at-s...
October 29, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Ladder faculty talking themselves into sacrificing the careers of their colleagues on the altar of the "freshness" and "pedagogical innovation" that new hires are expected to bring to workhorse teaching programs. Hmm...where have I heard that argument before?
www.chronicle.com/article/at-s...
www.chronicle.com/article/at-s...