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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen

@dianakudaibergen.bsky.social

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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

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Jul 14

Review of What Does It Mean to be Kazakhstani? featured in TLS:

www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

A product of social praxis

Kazakh, Tatar, Russian, Uyghur, Polish, German, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Chechen, Korean, Armenian – this far from exhaustive list gives an inkling of the ethnic

www.the-tls.com

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 1d

The happiness of witnessing my artist friends with my little books - Medina Bazargali, Saule & Suinbike Suleimenov with my latest book for which I took their father's & husband's Kuanysh Bazargaliev superb artwork.

Plus, I wrote a text for Barsakelmes performance in that gorgeous brochure <3

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 1d

the happiness of experiencing the magic of Barsakelmes performance for 5 and 1/5 times (five performances and one rehearsal).

So grateful to the Tselinny team for this experience!

I have to find space/time to write a long text about my experiences during the performance.

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 1d

the long awaited podcast with amazing curator, sound artist, DJ and public intellectual, Kamila Narysheva! Tune in to hear her fascinating story! <3

Follow YurtJurt on all major podcast platforms! We have more episodes coming up

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 10d

Yours truly also had another podcast released today, with Agnieszka Pilulicka and her Turan Tales.

This episode is about my latest book, What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani.

The more podcasts the merrier 🙌

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 10d

This week is rich in terms of podcasts!
Tune in here for the new episode of YurtJurt w the one & only Asem Zhapisheva!!!

She’s the most inspiring political voices of the new generation in Kazakhstan. I think this is one of the best podcasts in our series. Tune in! It’s so rich!

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 12d

A Russian state university has awarded a govt contract to a firm to develop a system for evaluating students' adoption of "traditional values." In July, the same institution contracted Moscow's Higher School of Economics to design tools for tracking students' views on this subject.

В РФ создадут приложение для оценки принятия студентами традиционных ценностей

Методологию и научный инструментарий разработает НИУ «ВШЭ», писали «Ведомости»

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Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS) @zois.bsky.social · 16d

📽️ Dieses Wochenende in Berlin! Das SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA zeigt ausgewählte Kurzfilme aus Usbekistan, Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Tadschikistan & der uigurischen Region Chinas und öffnet den Blick auf das vielschichtige #Zentralasien. Das ZOiS ist Unterstützer des Festivals.

Zum Programm👇

Central Asia: At the Crossroads

Central Asia: At the Crossroads richtet den Fokus auf Kurzfilme aus Usbekistan, Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Tadschikistan und der uigurischen Region Chinas – Werke jenseits Europas, die trotz tiefgreifender gesellschaftlicher und politischer Umbrüche auf der internationalen Bühne weitgehend unsichtbar...

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 17d

New episode of YurtJurt podcast on decoloniality! with Intizor! A multi-disciplinary Uyghur artist!

Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 23d

New episode of YurtJurt podcast just dropped!

Listen to me talking to Aysulu Toyshibek & hopefully you’d get the sound of the Issy Kol shore where we recorded this superb conversation (and many more conversations to come).

Subscribe to YurtJurt!

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 23d

I only wish my writing would be as floating, free, creative, talented, deep, innovative and experimental as his...

But it is not even about "I", "me", and so on. Samrat is much deeper than just personalities. He's beyond this world.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDC...

SAMRATTAMA — myñ mūñ / bitpeitin bit (live)

YouTube video by SAMRATTAMA

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 23d

I cannot wait to finish two manuscripts that have been torturing me for the past 9-10 years to start writing something cool and floating.

So I dive deep into the contemporary Central Asian music scene. accidentally found this old song by Samrattama (one love)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpkQ...

sobakasoma - VOPLL

YouTube video by SAMRATTAMA

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 24d

Aziza Kadyri artist talk!!!! In London!

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 24d

I highly recommend Samrattama (we are working on a couple of podcasts about him right now!), Dude on the guitar (one love, one love in my earphones and in my heart), Jeltoqsan, Yenlik.

I also love spoken project Balkhash snitsya (Dreaming of Balkhash).

Best contemporary music from Kazakhstan

Nicholas Walmsley @hulegu.bsky.social · 24d

someone gave me a whole list of recommendations for contemporary Kazakh music so you know where to find me

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 24d

my favourite people <3

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 26d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZSl...

пыльные губы

YouTube video by SAMRATTAMA - Topic

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 26d

spent two weeks with the most amazing people. I'll keep their wisdom and their love in my heart. And every little bit of time I was thinking how much I already miss home [Central Asia] while I was still at home. It is a strange and painful feeling.

Now listening to Samrattama, I'm in pain :'(

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s super cool that so much is happening in Central Asia this month. Too bad I can’t be in two places at once. But I’ll get there 🤣

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Sep 5

New episode of Yurt Jurt podcast about decolonial thought in North and Central Asia just dropped! Here I talk with Prof Madina Tlostanova about decolonial future, her new book and the term “postsoviet”.

available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcast & other major platforms!

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Meanwhile, I’ll report on the latest performances and superb decolonial feminist art I wrote about recently. Stay tuned please.

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Sep 4

All that said, one of my former bosses (in academia) tried to convince me never to write abt art ever again. Little did they know that I can’t live without art and that art and artists are my biggest inspiration.

My new protest art book will be on your shelves very soon (fingers crossed).

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Of another museum next week), but I know my work with the artists changed my outlook on methodology, theory-process and academia in general.

With Askhat I also realise that there’s little to no point in art if it’s not political.

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Sep 4

And today, speaking to Askhat, I realised art became my life.

I don’t know how many more books or texts I’ll write (one Of them will be distributed in a brochure at the opening of one major art institution this weekend and another text of mine will be in a catalogue of a major opening exhibition

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Then one small paper, then a series of three papers. Then one book that I’m finally finishing now.

then it was two book projects (one on decolonial art).

Last month sitting at the bar with artists, curators and poets I understood my “art project” is now my career.

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Sep 4

And this week alone I’m scared of how many new ideas/thoughts and books will visit my inspiration.

It all started with a curiosity of an MPhil student in 2010 peaking into photos of a recent cont art exhibition. I started interviewing artists in 2011.

It was supposed to be one small dissertation

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Went to see Askhat Akhmediyarov today to discuss a few things in the book I’m finalising now on protest art to check his old quotes.

Left his home after an 1.5h interview he told me to record thinking that I urgently need to write a new book.

The power of political art 🫡

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