Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen
@dianakudaibergen.bsky.social
Political Sociologist, Decolonial Writer, Central Asian to the core.
Lecturing at @UCLSSEES.
Most of the times you can find me writing or rummaging around the steppe, deserts and valleys.
Fellow at Homerton College, previously at Cambridge Sociology
Lecturing at @UCLSSEES.
Most of the times you can find me writing or rummaging around the steppe, deserts and valleys.
Fellow at Homerton College, previously at Cambridge Sociology
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thanks @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social for having Prof. Dr. Botakoz Kassymbekova on the show! hope to see her on bsky someday, but for now, reminded me to add another book to the shelf!
Imperial Innocence and the Undignified Empire with Botakoz Kassymbekova
Podcast Episode · Yurt Jurt · 11/27/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
thanks @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social for having Prof. Dr. Botakoz Kassymbekova on the show! hope to see her on bsky someday, but for now, reminded me to add another book to the shelf!
@joannalillis.bsky.social presenting her @bloombury.bsky.social book at the @uclssees.bsky.social Politics and Sociology seminar series chaired by @aglayasnetkov.bsky.social 🙏
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@joannalillis.bsky.social presenting her @bloombury.bsky.social book at the @uclssees.bsky.social Politics and Sociology seminar series chaired by @aglayasnetkov.bsky.social 🙏
The new issue of Central Asian Affairs journal is out! We have fascinating pieces on Central Asian politics and a book forum on film studies in the region.
Don’t forget to cite and share! we are also always looking for submissions from early career & regional scholars!
brill.com/downloadpdf/...
Don’t forget to cite and share! we are also always looking for submissions from early career & regional scholars!
brill.com/downloadpdf/...
brill.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The new issue of Central Asian Affairs journal is out! We have fascinating pieces on Central Asian politics and a book forum on film studies in the region.
Don’t forget to cite and share! we are also always looking for submissions from early career & regional scholars!
brill.com/downloadpdf/...
Don’t forget to cite and share! we are also always looking for submissions from early career & regional scholars!
brill.com/downloadpdf/...
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RUTA co-founder, historian @kassymbekova.bsky.social, will be giving a talk today on Destalinization as Decolonization. Her talk will explore why acknowledging Soviet and post-Soviet colonialism is not merely a matter of historical accuracy, but a necessary step toward imagining a democratic future.
A webinar on destalinization as decolonization: what does it mean to recognise the Soviet ‘Union’ and post-Soviet Russia as a colonial project and why is it essential to confront and overcome an ongoing imperial and not only an authoritarian legacy
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
RUTA co-founder, historian @kassymbekova.bsky.social, will be giving a talk today on Destalinization as Decolonization. Her talk will explore why acknowledging Soviet and post-Soviet colonialism is not merely a matter of historical accuracy, but a necessary step toward imagining a democratic future.
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This is a very important conversation between @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social+ @kassymbekova.bsky.social
I particularly appreciate the part where Bota says that for survivors of Soviet violence, the telling of trauma is not necessarily liberating.
#CentralAsia #Ukraine
open.spotify.com/episode/1CfN...
I particularly appreciate the part where Bota says that for survivors of Soviet violence, the telling of trauma is not necessarily liberating.
#CentralAsia #Ukraine
open.spotify.com/episode/1CfN...
Imperial Innocence and the Undignified Empire with Botakoz Kassymbekova
open.spotify.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This is a very important conversation between @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social+ @kassymbekova.bsky.social
I particularly appreciate the part where Bota says that for survivors of Soviet violence, the telling of trauma is not necessarily liberating.
#CentralAsia #Ukraine
open.spotify.com/episode/1CfN...
I particularly appreciate the part where Bota says that for survivors of Soviet violence, the telling of trauma is not necessarily liberating.
#CentralAsia #Ukraine
open.spotify.com/episode/1CfN...
In light of what's happening with the "anti-LGBT" law in Kazakhstan, I think it's important to listen to this superb podcast in Russian with the superb queer researchers/practitioners voices Salta Shoshanova and Medina Bazargali:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4F...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4F...
Искусство, квирность и деколонизация: Женские голоса Центральной Азии
YouTube video by Башта
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November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
In light of what's happening with the "anti-LGBT" law in Kazakhstan, I think it's important to listen to this superb podcast in Russian with the superb queer researchers/practitioners voices Salta Shoshanova and Medina Bazargali:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4F...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4F...
Bombastic new episode of YurtJurt podcast!
Tune in to listen to the amazing BOTAKOZ KASSYMBEKOVA!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
open.spotify.com/episode/1CfN...
Tune in to listen to the amazing BOTAKOZ KASSYMBEKOVA!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
open.spotify.com/episode/1CfN...
Imperial Innocence and the Undignified Empire with Botakoz Kassymbekova
open.spotify.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Bombastic new episode of YurtJurt podcast!
Tune in to listen to the amazing BOTAKOZ KASSYMBEKOVA!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
open.spotify.com/episode/1CfN...
Tune in to listen to the amazing BOTAKOZ KASSYMBEKOVA!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
open.spotify.com/episode/1CfN...
Reporting that I spent an awesome weekend with dear decolonial friends, read some immensely good prose, cried my eyes out on some of it (Egana Dzhabbarova <3), questioned existential questions, barely touched my social media (ahaha), &came crushing down to the officially the busiest week of the term
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reporting that I spent an awesome weekend with dear decolonial friends, read some immensely good prose, cried my eyes out on some of it (Egana Dzhabbarova <3), questioned existential questions, barely touched my social media (ahaha), &came crushing down to the officially the busiest week of the term
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That’s all because it was immensely inspiring to read your book. It is so rare to read work that captures what life in an authoritarian system is like, what it does to people on individual, societal and trans-generational levels, while doing justice to the insistence on and difficulty of resistance
re-reading @terezahendl.bsky.social review of the Kazakh Spring and every word resonates so deeply.
It's not a review, it's an incredibly inspiring text, an invitation for further research highlighting importance of decolonial writing about authoritarianisms and "embodied knowledge" I've been
It's not a review, it's an incredibly inspiring text, an invitation for further research highlighting importance of decolonial writing about authoritarianisms and "embodied knowledge" I've been
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
That’s all because it was immensely inspiring to read your book. It is so rare to read work that captures what life in an authoritarian system is like, what it does to people on individual, societal and trans-generational levels, while doing justice to the insistence on and difficulty of resistance
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Latest episode of the YurtJurt podcast that will be of great interest to many RUTA members and communities
In the latest episode of YurtJurt podcast, I converse with three fascinating feminist/decolonial Central Asian researchers and authors - fellow sociologist Aizada Arystanbek, political historian Kamila Smagulova, and feminist author Aisulu Toyshibek abt VOCABULARY
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
Yurt Jurt
Government Podcast · Yurt Jurt - a podcast about decolonizing Central Asia and Beyond produced by Central Asian activists. Hosted by Dr. Diana Kudaibergen, Yurt Jurt dives deep into the decoloniality ...
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Latest episode of the YurtJurt podcast that will be of great interest to many RUTA members and communities
We are hosting Joanna Lillis at @uclssees.bsky.social this Thursday! Come to Masaryk Room at 5 pm on 27th Nov.
Address: 16 Taviton Street, Bloomsbury, London, report to reception and go to the 4th floor.
Address: 16 Taviton Street, Bloomsbury, London, report to reception and go to the 4th floor.
Please join me for Silk Mirage launch events at Oxford University, University College London and online, with @uclssees.bsky.social @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social + others
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We are hosting Joanna Lillis at @uclssees.bsky.social this Thursday! Come to Masaryk Room at 5 pm on 27th Nov.
Address: 16 Taviton Street, Bloomsbury, London, report to reception and go to the 4th floor.
Address: 16 Taviton Street, Bloomsbury, London, report to reception and go to the 4th floor.
re-reading @terezahendl.bsky.social review of the Kazakh Spring and every word resonates so deeply.
It's not a review, it's an incredibly inspiring text, an invitation for further research highlighting importance of decolonial writing about authoritarianisms and "embodied knowledge" I've been
It's not a review, it's an incredibly inspiring text, an invitation for further research highlighting importance of decolonial writing about authoritarianisms and "embodied knowledge" I've been
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
re-reading @terezahendl.bsky.social review of the Kazakh Spring and every word resonates so deeply.
It's not a review, it's an incredibly inspiring text, an invitation for further research highlighting importance of decolonial writing about authoritarianisms and "embodied knowledge" I've been
It's not a review, it's an incredibly inspiring text, an invitation for further research highlighting importance of decolonial writing about authoritarianisms and "embodied knowledge" I've been
In the latest episode of YurtJurt podcast, I converse with three fascinating feminist/decolonial Central Asian researchers and authors - fellow sociologist Aizada Arystanbek, political historian Kamila Smagulova, and feminist author Aisulu Toyshibek abt VOCABULARY
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
Yurt Jurt
Government Podcast · Yurt Jurt - a podcast about decolonizing Central Asia and Beyond produced by Central Asian activists. Hosted by Dr. Diana Kudaibergen, Yurt Jurt dives deep into the decoloniality ...
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
In the latest episode of YurtJurt podcast, I converse with three fascinating feminist/decolonial Central Asian researchers and authors - fellow sociologist Aizada Arystanbek, political historian Kamila Smagulova, and feminist author Aisulu Toyshibek abt VOCABULARY
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
In case you missed it, there is also this podcast
What does it mean to be Kazakhstani? Listen to the new episode of Turan Tales with Diana Kudaibergen -- cultural and political sociologist and Lecturer in Central Asian Politics and Society at University College London turantales.substack.com/p/what-does-...
Episode 16: What does it mean to be Kazakhstani?
TURAN TALK with Diana Kudaibergen, a cultural and political sociologist from University College London
turantales.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In case you missed it, there is also this podcast
to to SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, London in two weeks' time!
It will be fun.
It will be fun.
Has Kazakh society found a solution to divisive ethno-nationalism? How have ordinary citizens shaped their identities? Join @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social as she unpacks Kazakhstan’s unique path to nationhood.
🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
to to SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, London in two weeks' time!
It will be fun.
It will be fun.
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What shaped #Soviet responses to the #Xinjiang uprisings of the early 1930s? Join our online Inner #Asia #Colloquium on 26 November for insights 🔍 from Siarhei Bohdan: www.remote-xuar.com/events/the-d...
MS Teams: msteams.link/CRNG, meeting ID: 386 791 868 171 5, password: YV9h2gu6.
MS Teams: msteams.link/CRNG, meeting ID: 386 791 868 171 5, password: YV9h2gu6.
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What shaped #Soviet responses to the #Xinjiang uprisings of the early 1930s? Join our online Inner #Asia #Colloquium on 26 November for insights 🔍 from Siarhei Bohdan: www.remote-xuar.com/events/the-d...
MS Teams: msteams.link/CRNG, meeting ID: 386 791 868 171 5, password: YV9h2gu6.
MS Teams: msteams.link/CRNG, meeting ID: 386 791 868 171 5, password: YV9h2gu6.
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A cover of a book about the 1989 revolutions, through the photographs of Jan Šibík. This woman was part of the student protests during the Velvet Revolution that freed many of us in (then) Czechoslovakia, while others remained unfree. What a memento
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A cover of a book about the 1989 revolutions, through the photographs of Jan Šibík. This woman was part of the student protests during the Velvet Revolution that freed many of us in (then) Czechoslovakia, while others remained unfree. What a memento
Reposted by Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen
A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university
economist.com/by-invitatio...
from The Economist
economist.com/by-invitatio...
from The Economist
A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university
Democratic governments must resist authoritarian states trying to co-opt their institutions, writes Laura Murphy
economist.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university
economist.com/by-invitatio...
from The Economist
economist.com/by-invitatio...
from The Economist
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It’s a text I wrote for a special issue of a Ukrainian gender studies journal, exploring feminist solidarity. In it, I critically analyse dominant Western and global feminist responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, “anti-war” manifestos and contemplations made by Judith Butler and Jasbir Puar
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It’s a text I wrote for a special issue of a Ukrainian gender studies journal, exploring feminist solidarity. In it, I critically analyse dominant Western and global feminist responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, “anti-war” manifestos and contemplations made by Judith Butler and Jasbir Puar
Reposted by Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen
It’s 17th November, the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that overthrew an oppressive state socialist regime and enabled the end of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. I share a personal text on what that revolution meant for Czechoslovak feminist thinkers
kcgs.net.ua/gurnal/26/06...
kcgs.net.ua/gurnal/26/06...
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It’s 17th November, the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that overthrew an oppressive state socialist regime and enabled the end of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. I share a personal text on what that revolution meant for Czechoslovak feminist thinkers
kcgs.net.ua/gurnal/26/06...
kcgs.net.ua/gurnal/26/06...
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3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh:
edin.ac/4hVNTAL
edin.ac/4hVNTAL
WARSHARE PhD Scholarships | School of Social and Political Science
Applications for the 3 PhD scholarships close at 23:59 GMT on Thursday 11th December 2025. Late applications cannot be accepted.Following a European Advanced Grant Award funded by UKRI to Professor An...
edin.ac
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh:
edin.ac/4hVNTAL
edin.ac/4hVNTAL
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2 Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH703/a...
Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
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November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
2 Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH703/a...
missing Tashkent and fieldworking
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
missing Tashkent and fieldworking
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What does it mean mean to write through war? Please join us for an evening with Ukrainian writer and war reporter Myroslav Laiuk, who will reflect on the challenges of representing violence and suffering.
Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.
🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6
Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.
🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What does it mean mean to write through war? Please join us for an evening with Ukrainian writer and war reporter Myroslav Laiuk, who will reflect on the challenges of representing violence and suffering.
Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.
🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6
Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.
🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6
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According to the police, around 10,000 people took to the streets of Riga tonight to protest against the (so far unsuccessful) attempts to withdraw Latvia from the Istanbul Convention.
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
According to the police, around 10,000 people took to the streets of Riga tonight to protest against the (so far unsuccessful) attempts to withdraw Latvia from the Istanbul Convention.