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2024 – 2027

Ph.D. Researcher in the Volkswagen Foundation Freigeist project “Light On! Queer Literary Cultures under Socialism”. University of Regensburg.


2021 – 2023

Project Leader at “Unit”- A network of journalists and activists writing about LGBTIQ+ topics in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, and Central Asia. Non-profit organisation n-ost, Berlin. https://unit.n-ost.org/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)


2016 – 2020

M.A. in Art History in the Global Context, Free University Berlin


2012 – 2016

B.A. in Art History, University of Vienna

Publikationen

Academic Publications

2024 (forthcoming)    “The Asharshylyq in Contemporary and Public Art of Kazakhstan.” In: History & Memory, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2024).


2021    “Queer Identity in the Contemporary Art of Kazakhstan.” Central Asian Survey 40, no. 1 (2021): 113–31. doi: 10.1080/02634937.2021.1882388  


2020    Edited Volume, Wiedlack, Katharina, Saltanat Shoshanova, Маsha Godovannaya. Queer-Feminist Solidarity and the East/West Divide. Oxford Bern Berlin Bruxelles New York Wien: Peter Lang.
doi: 10.3726/b14797


Research Reports

2024 (forthcoming)    Mapping LGBTIQ+ Activism in South Caucasus and Central Asia, ASTREA Foundation, co-authored with Mohira Suyarkulova, Nukri Tabidze, and Milena Abragamyan.


2021    How to Improve Central Asian Studies?, EISCAS, Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch et. al.


Other

2023    Collection of Articles | Queer Stories from Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and South Caucasus, Compilers Saltanat Shoshanova, Vika Biran, Pavel Gafarov, Unit. https://unit.n-ost.org/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)


2022    Exhibition Catalogue | Struggles and Dreams of Central Asia, Centralasiengrupperna Malmö. https://centralasien.org/3d-flip-book/exhibition-struggles-and-dreams-of-central-asia/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)


2021    “Soldier’s Letters.” In: Soviet Central Asia in 100 Objects. University of Oxford. https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/soviet-central-asia-100-objects (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)


2021    Conference proceedings | “Gay-Art and Super Putin: Subversive Affirmation in Contemporary Russian Art.” In: Open Gender Journal. 10th European Feminist Research Conference.

2017    Article | “Fantasien über Gayropa: Kunst und Politik.” In: Ost Journal. Ausgabe 02/2017 Alte und neue Grenzen in Europa. Ed. Martina Poljak

Saltanat Shoshanova

PhD researcher

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