Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen

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 🙌

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!

В РФ создадут приложение для оценки принятия студентами традиционных ценностей Методологию и научный инструментарий разработает НИУ «ВШЭ», писали «Ведомости»

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.

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...

📽️ 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.

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

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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).

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YouTube video by SAMRATTAMA SAMRATTAMA — myñ mūñ / bitpeitin bit (live)

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.

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YouTube video by SAMRATTAMA sobakasoma - VOPLL

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)

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Aziza Kadyri artist talk!!!! In London!

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

my favourite people <3

YouTube video by SAMRATTAMA - Topic пыльные губы

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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 :'(

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 🤣

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!

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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

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 🫡

It’s been a very spiritual summer. I think it was preparing me for smt grandeur and the forthcoming week with the coolest performances, my shaman friends & artists looks very promising as a last bit of the “spiritual awakening” (I’m Rukhani Kenguru ahahah).

So grateful to my aruakhs. And my steppe

Junior Professorship (non-tenure) in Environmental Anthropology Deadline: 01.10.2025

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry).
The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology!
Details ⬇️
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I agree with that last statement! Cannot
Understand why grid-lined paper is still so popular in KZ. Tried to buy a lined notebook for my field diaries recently in Almaty and was swamped with grid-lined ugly pages 🤨

Fantastic news!!!!

Huge Congratulations, @ericamarat.bsky.social!

I also want to say that I’m blessed to make this podcast with the coolest team. There are a lot people who remain backstage from the Bashtan Bashta team who produce this podcast. It’s a superb experience to work with professional people who care, people who love ❤️what they do. Chon rakhmat dostar

Radioactive Legacy: Surviving Soviet Nuclear Colonialism with Aigerim Seitenova Podcast Episode · Yurt Jurt · 28/08/2025 · 55m

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Tomorrow my country will commemorate the victims of the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons testing site, clearly a colonial project of the Soviet Union to test poisonous weapons in the sacred steppe. Today we release YurtJurt podcast with anti-nuclear activist Aigerim Seitenova ❤️

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I’ve been following this closely and cannot wait to attend every day of the performance to follow up with a concluding text (I contributed the base lines as a form of an instruction/introduction that you’ll see if you attend in person). Stay tuned. I’m so excited!!!!!