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Remembering YugoslaviaNonaligned Movement: EducationStudent scholarships were a huge part of Yugoslavia’s nonaligned diplomacy and one of the most tangible and visible ways Yugoslav citizens experienced nonalignment. Between 1955 and 1984, Yugoslavia granted nearly 8,000 scholarships to young people from 90 political parties, liberation movements, and countries of the Global South, with foreign students receiving professional, military, and university training and education in the country for various periods. But the program also had an ugly side: discrimination and racism (PLUS). With Rima Sabina Aouf, Leonora Dugonjic-Rodwin, and Peter Wright, plus Goran Musić, Žiga Smolič, Paul Stubbs, and Damir Vučićević. Featuring music by Gofret (c...2025-05-0540 minRemembering Yugoslavia[Fragment] This Was a GraffitiA story of a graffiti that may or may not have existed and of a very real documentary about it. An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment.The country of Yugoslavia may no longer appear on any physical maps, but it remains on many people’s mental maps and it inspires their creativity. The Inspired by Yugoslavia series features such people and their creations. With Valeriya Boyko.Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two...2024-09-3012 minRemembering YugoslaviaFound in Translation, TooLiterature is a crucial piece in the puzzle of Yugoslavia’s memory. Let’s give English translations a read again, through the eyes of translators.With Ellen Elias Bursać, Will Firth, Rawley Grau, Mirza Purić, Ena Selimović, and Jennifer Zoble.Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices7Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show2024-09-2444 minRemembering YugoslaviaDiaspora Voices 7: GenerationsDiaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. This one started with an email. With Tanya Pikula.Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices7Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show2024-09-1026 minRemembering YugoslaviaBetter Grave: Cemeteries in the Former YugoslaviaA visit to cemeteries in the former Yugoslavia.With Carol Lilly.Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes, transcript and extended version: Yugoblok.com/Better-GraveInstagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show2024-08-1239 minRemembering YugoslaviaYugophiles of All LandsAll around the world, there are people with no familiar or formal links to Yugoslavia who carry the country in their hearts and souls with love. "Yugophiles of All Lands" is a new series on Remembering Yugoslavia featuring yugophiles. Today, we take a look at the place from the Netherlands by way of Ireland with Stephen Eustace and from Spain with Sebas Velasco.Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes...2024-07-2329 min
Remembering YugoslaviaIntroducing YugoblokYugoblok is a global community for all who celebrate Yugoslavia’s legacy, cultivate its memory, and imagine its future possibilities.Yugoblok grew out of the Remembering Yugoslavia podcast and is its new home. It's also the new home for my writing. Yugoblok is a membership-based social network for yugophiles, post-Yugoslavs, and the yugo-curious all over the world. Yugoblok is a destination guide, event venue, and publishing platform. Yugoblok is a shop with original yugo-inspired designs.Yugoblok is you. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a cou...2024-07-0908 minRemembering YugoslaviaBrotherhood and Unity on the CourtA look at Yugoslavia's most successful sport. Why do people remember Yugoslavia so fondly through basketball? Why was Yugoslavia so good at basketball? With Billie Addleman and Tilen Jamnik; Mitja Velikonja with an assist.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Support the show2024-07-0141 minRemembering YugoslaviaThe Name of the Game: Yugoslav FootballThe world’s most popular sport played a role in the creation of socialist Yugoslavia, in promoting the ideology of brotherhood and unity, and ultimately in the country’s violent dissolution. With Nadan Hadžić and Richard Mills.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Yugoslav-FootballInstagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport...2024-05-2746 minRemembering YugoslaviaFound in TranslationLiterature is a crucial piece in the puzzle of Yugoslavia's memory. Let's give English translations a read.Part 2 of 2. With Vesna Marić (The President Shop), Eamon McGrath, and Buzz Poole (Sandorf Passage).The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Found-in-Translation/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show2024-05-1332 minRemembering Yugoslavia#exyulitLiterature is a crucial piece in the puzzle of Yugoslavia's memory. Let's give it a read.Part 1 of 2. With Eamon McGrath @balkanbooks and Danja Bujas @danchireads.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-exyulitInstagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show2024-04-2246 minRemembering Yugoslavia(Post)Partisan WomenOne hundred thousand women fought in the Yugoslav Partisan forces and two million more provided support to the resistance (and revolution) in the rear. Today the generation of these women’s granddaughters carries on the legacy of their struggle. With Chiara Bonfiglioli, Ana Džokić, and Lura Limani. Featuring music by PMG Kolektiv and Sticky Keys.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Post-Partisan-WomenInstagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPO...2024-04-0157 minRemembering YugoslaviaRed DubrovnikA walk through Yugoslavia's legacy in Dubrovnik and a visit to the Red History Museum. With Krešimir Glavinić (Red History Museum). Featuring music by Sticky Keys.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Red-Dubrovnik/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show2024-03-1832 minRemembering YugoslaviaTravel QuestsOn the road in the former Yugoslavia with a couple of Americans: one recreating his trip from 1984, the other looking for cheese.With Chad Miller and Babs Perkins. Featuring music by Sticky Keys.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Travel-Quests/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show2024-03-0429 minRemembering YugoslaviaThe Dissolution of YugoslaviaWhy did Yugoslavia fall apart?With Susan L. Woodward.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Dissolution-of-Yugoslavia/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show2024-02-1339 minRemembering YugoslaviaSarajevo, USAOne in three Bosnians live outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Most Bosnians outside their country, about 87 percent, are dispersed around Europe. Though only about 10 percent live in the United States, the country is home to the biggest Bosnian city abroad.With Akif Cogo, Patrick McCarthy, and Gino Srdjan Jevdjević. Featuring music by Kultur Shock.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Sarajevo-USA/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT T...2024-01-2252 minRemembering YugoslaviaAsk Me AnythingIn which I answer listener questions...about anything (but strictly Yugoslavia-related).The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-AMA1/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show2024-01-0118 minRemembering YugoslaviaThe Secret of RakijaRakija is the distilled essence of the Balkan soul. More than a spirit, quintessential as it may be, rakija has a long history. Lately it has seen both threats to its survival and a resurgence.With Bill Gould (Faith No More / Yebiga Rakija), and Iskra Vukšić and Ekaterina Volkova (Javna Tajna). Featuring music by Dario, Dubioza Kolektiv, Luboyna, Magnifico, Pedja Vujić, and S.A.R.S.More in the extended version.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Kor...2023-12-191h 24Remembering YugoslaviaK67: The King of KiosksThe K67 Kiosk is a symbol of Yugoslavia. Once ubiquitous in its thousands, only a few hundred units remain around the former country, many in various state of disrepair, and a handful of others around the world. But particularly over the past decade, the Kiosk has been experiencing a revival of sorts. It nowadays inspires educators, artists, designers, and others in their work. With Filip Filković and Dijana Handanović.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two...2023-11-271h 06Remembering YugoslaviaCollective NostalgiaYugonostalgia as a collective emotion is a sentimental longing for a positively remembered past of the former country and life in it. Why and how does it arise? What are its positive and negative effects? And what are its implications?With Borja Martinović and Anouk Smeekes.More in the extended version.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Collective-NostalgiaInstagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: ...2023-11-1330 minRemembering YugoslaviaDiaspora Voices 6: Music and LoveDiaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. In this installment, a Canadian and an Australian with Croatian Serb heritage share stories about longing and belonging. With Nina Platiša and Nik. Featuring music by Nina Platiša.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Diaspora-VoicesInstagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: Su...2023-10-1047 minRemembering YugoslaviaInspired by Yugoslavia #4: Designers (Mostly)The country of Yugoslavia may no longer appear on any physical maps, but it remains on many people’s mental maps; though Yugoslavia may be dead forever as a political entity, it lives on as a cultural project.Yugoslavia's material and cultural production inspires many people to make art and products. And a lot of them have little or even no lived experience in or memory of it.These are their stories.Part 4 of many: Designers (mostly).With Tadej Anclin (3D monuments), Claire Condon (Yugopaperniks), and Dejan Medojević (Dejoslavija), and contributions by...2023-09-1131 minRemembering YugoslaviaSearching for Tito's PunksIn 1981, an obscure English punk band recorded a song whose cover by an Istrian punk band became famous in the former Yugoslavia. It took three decades and serendipity for the dots to connect. With Barry Phillips (Demob) and Nenad Milić (Tito's Bojs). Featuring music by Agent Tajne Sile, Defiance, Hladno Pivo, JazzIstra Orchestra, and Tito's Bojs.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Titos-PunksInstagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSU...2023-08-2948 minRemembering YugoslaviaCelluloid RetroFilms made after 1991 that are set in socialist Yugoslavia keep the former country present in popular culture. From Tito and Me (1991) to How I Learned to Fly (2022), from Slovenia to Serbia and beyond, from nostalgic tales to dark thrillers, the post-Yugoslav cinematography remembers Yugoslavia. Similarly, Czech directors have tackled the socialist period in their own ways. A comprehensive, comparative perspective.With Mirko Milivojević and Vladan Petković (YU) and Veronika Pehe (CS). Featuring music by Spirituál Kvintet and others.More in the extended version.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a c...2023-08-141h 23Remembering YugoslaviaOn TraumaThere’s an invisible way of remembering the former country and especially how it fell apart: in your body. This is doubly true for trauma. How do the people of the former Yugoslavia experience and deal with trauma of their country's dissolution? How does trauma get passed down over generations? And how can we dance our way out of it?With Stefan Jovanović and Snježana Pruginić. More in the extended version.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korch...2023-07-0446 minRemembering YugoslaviaVladimir Nazor: Dalmatian Poet, Croatian Politician, Yugoslav PartisanVladimir Nazor was a poet, Partisan, and politician. His greatness and popularity endured through five regimes/countries. Who was Croatia's greatest children's writer and first president? How did the author of so many Croatian national classics turn into Tito’s adulator ? How come he remains a popular figure in today’s anti-communist Croatia? With Marijan Lipovac and Martin Mayhew. Featuring select poetry and prose of Vladimir Nazor (lots more in the extended version).The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New...2023-06-191h 08Remembering YugoslaviaOne Day in KumrovecThe Day of Youth was a major Yugoslav holiday. It continues to be annually commemorated to this day in Tito's birthplace. What was the holiday and how was it celebrated in Kurmovec? How is the defunct Yugoslav holiday commemorated today? Plus a field report from the 2022 edition of the event.*With Nevena Škrbić Alempijević and Jovan Vejnović (plus Hrvoje Klasić and Larisa Kurtović).* The extended version available on Patreon includes a report from the 2023 event.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced...2023-05-291h 04Remembering YugoslaviaAn Incomplete Guide to (Post)Yugoslav CinemaLet's go to the movies! Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav film is a port window projecting the region’s cultures and history. From Gibanica to Kraut Westerns, from Black Wave to Prague School, and from films of remembrance to war movies, this is seventy years of cinematic history in a single arc.With Dijana Jelača and Sanjin Pejković. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Yugoslav-CinemaInstagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUP...2023-05-151h 05Remembering YugoslaviaThe Future of YugonostalgiaYugonostalgia is like a vessel that everyone fills with their own ideas and meanings. What is it and why does it exist? How does it manifest and how do different people experience it? And where is it headed? A deep dive in the yugonostalgia plus a comparison with nostalgia in the former Czechoslovakia.With Milica Popović and Boris Strečanský. Featuring music by Polemic & Medial Banana.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two time...2023-04-2452 minRemembering YugoslaviaThe Jews of SarajevoJews have been part of Sarajevo's human tapestry since the 16th century, only to be "discovered' by the rest of the world during the Bosnian War. This is their story.With Jakob Finci* and Francine Friedman. Featuring music by Shira Utfila and Flory Jagoda.* Bonus episode featuring the full interview with Finci available exclusively to Patreon and other supporters.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes one to two times per month.Show notes/transcript...2023-04-101h 02