Research groups
- Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality Research
- Research Group for East Slavic Languages, Societies and Cultures
Short info
I am a principal investigator of the Research Council of Norway project RUMEX: TO KILL AN EMPIRE? RUSSIAN MUSICAL EXILE IN TIMES OF WAR
Outreach
- Paper: Translational Temporalities. Part of the workshop Immobility and Movements Across Contested Temporalities and Spaces in connection with the Peder Sather-funded project Native/Immigrant/Refugee, University of Bergen, Norway, 19-20.06.23
- Paper: Tatar Modernities, Neoliberalism and Russian post-coloniality in a Makeover TV Show Min, Kjønnsforskning NÅ (Gender Studies Now) conference, University of Stavanger, Norway, 01-02.06.23
- Paper: "When post-feminism meets Russian post-coloniality: examining Tatar makeover show Min", during FEMCORUS' symposium Rewired and revamped? Media & trans/national feminisms in Europe and beyond, University of Tampere, 12.05.23
- Paper: "Racial translation in intersectionality’s and hip-hop’s eastward travels. The case of Russophone grassroots feminist translations of intersectionality and Timati’s hip-hop" as part of the seminar series FEMCORUS (the Academy of Finland project Mediated Feminism(s) in Contemporary Russia (FEMCORUS), University of Tampere, 10.11.22
- Panel talk: Translating intersectional feminism into Russian during parallell session Intersectional, celebrity, post-truth: Russian feminism and the new media environment. ECREA 2022 9th European Communication Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 21.10.23
- Paper: Beard Against the West: (non)Russian Hip-Hop Masculinities Confronting Sexual Perversion at Junior Scholars Symposium: Gender (in a Time of) Trouble: Studying Slavic Sexualities Now, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, 30.09.22
- Paper: The privilege to know: power, stigma and authority in Russophone feminist translations of intersectionality. Buzzing feminisms in times of ‘conservative turn at the international Workshop: Post-Soviet Women – New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment, Uppsala University, 28.09.22
- Panelist in "Rethinking the concept of 'race' in gender studies in the Nordic context" during the NORA conference 2022. Postdoctoral fellow Redi Koobak moderated the panel and professor Randi Gressgård also participated from SKOK. 22.06.2022
- Press release about experts at UiB in relation to Queer Culture Year/Pride 2022: Eksperter fra UiB: Skeivt kulturår/Pride 2022
- Book review of The Cultural is Political: Intersections of Russian Art and State Politics - Nordisk Østforum, 36/2022
- Book launch of The Cultural is Political: Intersections of Russian Art and State Politics - 22 March 2021
Teaching
At the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
- 2025 Sustainability and Ethical Challenges ENE452 (Master's level seminar). Gender, Power and Climate: Feminist, Intersectional and Decolonial Approaches to Climate Change
At the NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies
- 2024-2025 Summer Course: Politics of Protest and the Dynamics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Ongoing Russian Musical Exile (designed and taught in 2024 and 2025)
At the University of Bergen, Norway
- 2024-2025 KVIK206 Course, Masculinity in Contemporary Literature and Music, Gender, and Sexuality in a Global Context (designed and taught a 12-hour module on masculinity in popular music)
- 2023 KVIK 101 Course, Kjønn i det moderne (Gender in the Modern World)
- 2020 KVIK 206 Course, The #MeToo Moment: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in a Global Context
- 2020 KVIK 101 Course, Kjønn i det moderne (Gender in the Modern World)
- 2019 KVIK 101 Course, Kjønn i det moderne (Gender in the Modern World)
- 2017 KVIK 206 Course, Gender, Migration and Time: Gender, Sexuality and Violence in a Global Context
Publications
Yangeldina, Dinara (2025) Imaginary Brooklyn in Post-Soviet Anywhere: Nostalgia, Heterotopia and Affective Circulations of the ‘Russian hip-hop’, book chapter in Music Video and Transcultural Imaginaries: Media – Aesthetics – Social Utopia, Waxmann, Popular Culture, and Music series.
Yangeldina, Dinara (2024) Going Native/Viral in Russian Popular Music: Aesthetic Populism, Patriotic Anti-Racism, and the Quest for Hip-Hop Authenticity in Timati’s Teymuraz Music Video Trilogy.” IASPM Journal 14 (2): 94–118.
Yangeldina, Dinara (2023) Generations of Feminist Translations: Connecting Russophone Academic and Activist Feminist Translation Debates Across the 2000s and 2010s, in Sätre, Ann-Mari, Gradskova, Yulia & Vladimirova, Vladislava (2023) Post-Soviet Women: New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment. Springer International Publishing.
Yangeldina, Dinara (2023) Beautiful Diversity? Diversity Rhetoric, Ethnicized Visions, and Nesting Post-Soviet Hegemonies in the Multimedia Project The Ethnic Origins of Beauty, in (eds.) Lykke, Nina; Koobak, Redi; Bakos, Petra, Arora, Swati & Mohamed, Kharnita (2023) Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms. And Words Collide from a Place. London: Routledge.
Yangeldina, Dinara (2020) #Russianrapisracist vs #RussianNaziPurgeParty: On Geopolitics, Trolling and the Mistranslation of Race in a Twitter Controversy, in The Cultural is Political: Intersections of Russian Art and State Politics. Bergen: Dept of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen.
Projects
I am the author and project leader of a three-year FRIPRO research project, RUMEX: To Kill an Empire? Russian Musical Exile in Times of War, funded by the Research Council of Norway (2026–2029)
RUMEX explores Russian popular music in exile. The project’s overarching goal is to explore the shifting relationship between music, politics, and anti-war protests by studying Russian musical exile following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. RUMEX combines an ethnography of the infrastructures sustaining Russian musical exile in seven urban hubs and on digital platforms with a cultural analysis of cultural productions in exile. The project employs an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical framework that combines postcolonial Russian studies, gender studies, and popular music and media research.
Read more about the project on the website:
https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-projects/to-kill-an-empire-russian-musical-exile-in-times-of-war-rumex
And follow the project on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/rumex_project/