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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Join us for this launch! Glad to have been part of the forum and our ongoing dialogues on decoloniality in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. We’re fortunate to have Madina Tlostanova and Yuliya Yurchuk reading our work. And the discussion will be even better thanks to Assel Tutumlu, who will moderate

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David Stroup @davidstroup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cool to see Sadia Rahman’s new article examining colonialism and the erasure of Uyghur language out in print (and open access) in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. Congrats! Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I saw this message just now. I might reach out at some point when they allow me to write my next-next book :) thank you!

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

even in my favourite Vinyasa sessions (that saved me from a burnout so many times) I still think about my unfinished projects and books I need to write... No rest for the wicked.

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

every time I speak to my art friends I just feel so miserable at how limited academic language is and how cool and borderless, boundless and imaginative is theirs... Sometimes we need to un-learn the academic format to write without boundaries as if galloping on a horse across the endless steppe.

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

projects like these make my heart sing! Because art is mixed with media and Jama being one of the most involved and loved art directors in the region in the heart of it all <3

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you live abroad you’re obliged to give these away. So much that you forget how divine it tastes. I probably didn’t have this chocolate for myself in a couple of years 🥹if not more. Rahat chocolate factory from Almaty is the taste of my childhood.

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I loved editing this paper on Nationalising Body Image in Kazakhstan, a fresh feminist critique written by Alua Samat and Elena Kim. Have a read and consider sharing with your students. We'd love to see more of these pieces in Central Asian Affairs journal! brill.com/view/journal...

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Nationalizing Body Image: How Women in Kazakhstan Navigate Ambivalence and Gendered Scripts through Aesthetic Labor

Abstract In this article, we explore body image in contemporary Kazakhstan by analytically situating it at the intersection of post-socialist neoliberal transformation and retraditionalized gender reg...

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think so. @associationruta.bsky.social usually records and then uploads the webinars on their website. fingers crossed

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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Save the date for our next RUTA webinar, bringing together the author collective of a crucial transregional forum on decolonial dialogues in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, with Madina Tlostanova and Yuliya Yurchuk as discussants, and Assel Tutumlu as moderator. The registration page will open soon

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Join us for our next RUTA webinar: the discussion will bring together the collective of authors and editors of a crucial transregional forum of much-needed decolonial dialogues, with Madina Tlostanova and Yuliya Yurchuk as discussants and Assel Tutumlu moderating. This is a not-to-be-missed event

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OMG Just found out my friend's amazing book will be published by a top press in her field!!!! But I can't reveal the news yet. OMG OMG OMG watch this space. I'll advertise the book widely once it will become public!!!!!!

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Save the date and share widely! On 28th October we come together to celebrate our big special issue on decolonial dialogues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the @associationruta.bsky.social! Join online <3

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Facebook reminds that last year I was in Bukhara <3 during the biennale but the truth is I'd go and live in Bukhara anytime, biennale or not, it is one of my most favourite places in the whole world. I have countless memories of being there and just feeling pure happiness.

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the mothers of the deceased soldiers found out about her son’s tragic death while in chemotherapy. The family’s bank accounts are frozen due to unpaid debts. They live in a house that’s falling apart. She sits there on the floor crying non-stop. It’s so devastating 💔😭

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wish my social skills were better and I wouldn't just talk about "work" all the time. Meanwhile my mind is predominantly occupied by art, writing about art, unfinished ethnographies, Michele Foucault, Lisa Wedeen, "where to find a bookstore here" and "when can I escape to the library?".

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

manifesting that the editor from my dream press reaches out to me out of the blue asking if I have a new book. I do. Or at least for my old editor to respond to me about my revisions submitted almost two months ago. I do not like sending these emails. But I have to at some point :(

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨 New publication alert (open access) 🚨 I've been working on everyday nationalism for a good portion of my career, so it was a genuine privilege to contribute to this exchange along with @davidstroup.bsky.social, Jon Fox & Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Kanchan Chandra, and @tptrost.bsky.social.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 09/09/2026

⚡️Russian attacks kill at least 12, injure 66 across Ukraine as Russia continues relentless strikes on Kyiv In Kyiv's Darnytskyi district, five people were injured after a Russian morning strike hit a 24-story residential building, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Sept. 9.

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Russian attacks kill at least 12, injure 66 across Ukraine as Russia continues relentless strikes on Kyiv

In Kyiv's Darnytskyi district, five people were injured after a Russian morning strike hit a 24-story residential building, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Sept. 9.

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

we had a fascinating panel today with Selbi Durdiyeva and Aksana Ismailbekova at SRC in Hokkaido at the workshop on Everyday Politics in Central Asia. I wanted to highlight Selbi's recent paper on family archives and hauntology she discussed today. <3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Audre Lorde, (post)colonial hauntings of socialist archive and the “emancipated” women write back

This paper engages with Audre Lorde’s journal entry, ‘Notes from a Trip to Russia’, as a framework for locating haunting hegemonic feminist imaginaries fed by the narratives of state-managed social...

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

reading Selbi Durdiyeva's draft work for tomorrow's workshop at the SRC in Sapporo and reading Madina Tlostanova's latest book gives me hope there's a lot to both theory & creative approaches to writing on coloniality. Both captured me so much that I lost a sense of time <3 I highly recommend.

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Plus, check out our most recent special issue on decolonial dialogues across Central Asia and Eastern Europe! It's Open Access --> brill.com/view/journal...

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Plus, check out our most recent special issue on decolonial dialogues across Central Asia and Eastern Europe! It's Open Access --> brill.com/view/journal...

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just today so many papers got accepted or reviewed or sent to production and a lot more is coming. My fav in the forthcoming is on gambling & debt, and on body as a disciplining site. Check out the journal for more and I'll share new papers once these come out online!

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just a reminder that this great academic journal of CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS exists and we are working very hard at the editorial team to make it a platform for some of the most innovative discussions in the field. brill.com/view/journal... Please download, read, discuss and cite!

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No one went outside though. I don’t have a local sim so I didn’t get the notification. The habitus told me to pack the essentials, keep my shoes close to me and go to bed. The quake lasted for 2 min. Habitus told me to expect aftershocks. I grew up with earthquakes. It’s all fine. But scary 🥹

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yesterday there was a 6.0 earthquake off the coast of Hokkaido where I’m at atm. The shaking in my apartment on the 5th floor felt super weird esp when you’re about to fall asleep. I mechanically dressed up while the floor danced under me. I only realised the danger when I heard my neighbours scream

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I grew up in Kazakhstan so earthquakes are naturally part of my habitus 🫣 & some funny stories from childhood. Then I lived in Ashgabat where I also experienced bunch of earthquakes. No panic, always laughing. But Hokkaido earthquakes disorient me which is the worst 🥹

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Such good news. North Caspian sees the rise of water!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

❤️‍🔥 Also hoping that many people will read it and have the courage to sit with the discomfort that the many silenced critical perspectives might bring up—and, instead of dismissing them, grapple with them and let them unsettle old assumptions, legacies of injustice, and exceptionalist double standards

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Such an important issue!!! And it’s OPEN ACCESS! Hope many people will read it. Thank YOU Tereza!!!!

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Super excited about this special issue just published OPEN ACCESS by the Central Asian Affairs Journal! Looking Back, Moving Forward: Interdisciplinary Decolonial Dialogues on Central Asia and Eastern Europe: A Special Forum, ed: Nodira Kholmatova, Olga Burlyuk and Gulnaz Sibgatullina.

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Waking up in Japan to find out my book is trending on Instagram 🫶 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The beauty of academia is sharing ideas and having insightful conversations. Gave a talk at Tokyo University today. Decided to finish this book and also start writing another one ahahaha “this one” has been on my table for 10 years 🫢

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

ASEEES Syllabus Bank ASEEES invites the submission of any syllabi related to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. The ASEEES Syllabus Bank brings together syllabi from across the field, submitted by faculty and instructors within Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. buff.ly/dBgcBQs

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Hawkeye 🚫👑 💙👊🏼 @dontdeflect.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Liz, a teacher friend of mine, points out that Damon is Nomad spelled backwards. 🤣

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

July is truly the fastest week of the whole summer.

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

and so much more I'll be savouring for days. <3 Thank you @associationruta.bsky.social for this unforgettable experience!

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

so grateful to Dr Zarina Mukanova for brining us together to speak at this super important conjuncture. My heart aches, my breath is irregular, my words are a beehive in my head, yet my body rejoices. The panel brought back the necessity to think of embodiments, testimonies, lived experiences

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

just attended my best panel online, middle of the night where I am, people gathering at RUTA in Ukraine & almost all my co-panelists joining from different sides of the world. Yet we speak of the same pain, of the same embodied knowledges and of the type of violence shared across and beyond borders

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Central Asian Affairs journal June issue is out, check it out! Papers on ethnographies of Osh bazaars, Kelin discourses in Uzbek cinema, Basmachi movements in Kyrgyzstan, dissertation review on disabilities in Uzbekistan and a lot more! brill.com/view/journal...

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

And what a joy that Central Asian readers all immediately lock me as a theorist and what a joy that "What does it mean" became the most popular of my all books at home, especially among the youngest generation who stop me at exhibitions & cultural institutions & ask "It's you, right?" ahahaha luv

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

By the end of my PhD write up, I was firmly convinced I wanted to do social theory but with Central Asian roots. Little did I know, it is a lifetime journey of learning, being mistaken, writing tons and publishing much less of what's written, & constantly going back to refine my arguments.

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Educated first as a cultural studies person with a heavy emphasis on postcolonial Latin American literary studies (in Basque Country out of all places <3) and before that as a home-grown writer in Almaty, in my grad school I was drawn to mix it all with the deeper understanding of Central Asia.

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I often joke that this is the book I wish I had as a grad student (and if it was written by someone else). In grad school, I was mostly surrounded by a ton of social theory & the breadth of the so-called "postsoviet studies" where there was little about my home region.

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