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Remembering Yugoslavia[Redux] The Origin Story of Remembering YugoslaviaRemembering Yugoslavia the podcast is FIVE years old! A gift to you in celebration of our 5th birthday: a reverse episode with me as the guest expanding on the podcast's origin story. Plus travel, socialism, and Yugonostalgia* * *.With Peter Korchnak (Remembering Yugoslavia).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended, ad-free episode featuring extra interview footage, stories, and analysis; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.Show notes a...
2025-07-0827 minRemembering 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 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 show
2024-09-2444 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 show
2024-09-1026 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 show
2024-08-1239 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...
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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 show
2024-07-0141 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 show
2024-05-1332 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 show
2024-04-2246 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 show
2024-03-1832 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 show
2024-03-0429 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 show
2024-02-1339 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 show
2024-01-0118 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 02Remembering YugoslaviaDiaspora Voices 5: Identity and CommunityDiaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. In this installment of Diaspora Voices, a Vlach-American from Eastern Serbia and a Yugoslav-Australian from Slavonia share stories of their journeys to themselves and their tribes. With Daniela Vančić and Denis Svob. Featuring music by Šizike and Mechanism of Action.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-Voices-4Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW...
2023-03-1342 minRemembering YugoslaviaInspired by Yugoslavia #3: PartisansThe 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 3 of many: Partisans.With Daniel Skoric (Comrade Commando), Darko Nikolovski (Join the Partisans) and Ana Radovcich (Unuka Partizana). Fe...
2023-02-2746 minRemembering YugoslaviaInspired by Yugoslavia #2: New BelgradeThe 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 2 of many. With Igor Simić (Golf Club Wasteland), Jovana Radujko (Brutalizam i Renesansa), and Donald Niebyl ([New Belgrade Database]). Featuring mus...
2023-02-1358 minRemembering YugoslaviaInspired by Yugoslavia #1 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 1 of many: With Kaja Šišmanović & Matija Hajdarhodžić (Future Yugoslavia), Vjosa Musliu (Yugoslawomen Plus), and Rima Sabina Aouf (Yugo: A Graphi...
2023-01-2345 minRemembering YugoslaviaJokers to the RightWhat do you call Yugoslavia after Tito? Titanic.It's the end of the year, time to get serious about humor. What did people in the former Yugoslavia joke about and, most importantly, why? What about the post-Yugoslav landscape of laughter?With Zenit Djozić (Top Lista Nadrealista) and Marina Orsag (Croatian stand-up). Featuring music by Los Kretenos.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.Extended version AKA Encore:
2022-12-261h 23Remembering YugoslaviaBurek in SpaceBurek is a pastry dish comprising thin layers of dough and a variety of fillings—a quintessential Balkan breakfast staple, late night snack, or anytime-anywhere fast-food delight, really. Burek is also a metaphor that varies across the former Yugoslav lands. Burek is food is life is culture is politics is burek. With Irina Janakievska, Ksenija Hotić, and Spasia Dinkovski. Featuring music by Ali En, Best Burek, Burek, Burek Brothers Trio, Dosh Lee, Las Balkanieras, Vlada i Teoretičari Zavere, and Voodoo Popeye.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longe...
2022-12-1259 minRemembering YugoslaviaEx-YU Rock CenterRock music is a huge part of Yugoslavia’s legacy. Soon, there will be a place in Sarajevo bringing Yugoslav rock back to life. With Will Richard, Zenit Djozić, and Petar Janjatović. Featuring songs by Zed Mitchell, Yugo Project, Zabranjeno Pušenje, Uroš Andrijašević, and more.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes once or twice per month.Shownotes and transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-ExYURockCenter/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal
2022-11-221h 00Remembering YugoslaviaBosnian Ice HockeyWhen you think of sports in Yugoslavia, ice hockey doesn’t exactly skate to mind. But not only does hockey have a tradition in the former Yugoslavia, in one unexpected part of the disappeared country the beautiful game is on the up and up.With Amil Delić and Will Richard.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.Extended version AKA Overtime: PatreonShownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Bosnian-Ice-HockeyInstagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW:
2022-11-0743 minRemembering YugoslaviaThe Lost (and Last) Yugoslavs of Astoria, OregonThe story of a tiny immigrant community in the first permanent American settlement west of the Mississippi.With Djordje Čitović.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.Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Yugoslavs-Astoria-Oregon/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show
2022-10-1028 minRemembering YugoslaviaPerforming YU and EU in KosovoA close look at how Yugoslavia and the European Union, both supranational entities with uneven economic development and riven by nationalism, strive(d) to change institutions, structures, economies as well as behavior and practices in Kosovo in order to build a certain kind of state and society in their image.With Vjosa Musliu. Featuring music by Gjurmët and Diadema.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.Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/P...
2022-09-261h 15Remembering YugoslaviaIsland, BaredA barren island in the Adriatic Sea was between 1949 and 1956 the site of an internment camp where Tito's regime sent its opponents for "re-education." At Goli Otok, the newly minted anti-Stalinists were fighting Stalinists with Stalinist methods. How did the prison and labor camp at Naked Island come about and what happened there? How do people remember and commemorate this dark stain in Yugoslavia's history?With Tiha Gudac. Featuring songs titled "Goli Otok" by Ratsmagick, Valter i Perspektiva, and Voyvoda.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists...
2022-08-081h 10Remembering YugoslaviaLong Live Lepa Brena!Lepa Brena was the most famous Yugoslav singer of the 1980s. Her popularity during the decade eclipsed that of the late Tito. She remains the greatest and best-selling Yugoslav pop star. But Lepa Brena was more than a pop icon: she continues to personify Yugoslavia for many to this day. What's her story? And what does she mean for Yugoslavia's memory?With Olga Dimitrijević. Featuring a cover of "Jugoslovenka" by Inje.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes t...
2022-07-2543 minRemembering YugoslaviaFićo Goes Back to the FutureThere’s a Yugoslav car that was even more important than the Yugo for the country and for the country’s memory. Better known by its nickname, Fića / Fićo / Fićko, Zastava 750 was the first Yugoslav car. It was and continues to be a Yugoslav icon, a symbol of that disappeared country and an object of nostalgia. In metaphorical terms, Fićo is Yugoslavia…and probably always will be. This is Fića's story.With Martin Pogačar and Jovana Stojiljković. Featuring the song "Piči Fića" by Sabrija Vulić.The Remembering Yugo...
2022-06-2757 minRemembering YugoslaviaSlavenka Drakulić: A European PersonA conversation with journalist and writer Slavenka Drakulić.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month.Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Slavenka-Drakulic/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show
2022-06-1336 minRemembering YugoslaviaDiaspora Voices 4: Third Culture KidsThe scars of the Siege of Sarajevo have marked an entire generation of Sarajevans—and their children. How do children of Bosnian refugees growing up abroad form their identity? What culture do they belong to? Where is home? And what of Yugonostalgia among the post-1991 cohort?An installment of the Diaspora Voices series. With Anja Savčić and Arnela Išerić. Co-produced with Jelena Sofronijević. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month.Showno...
2022-04-041h 00Remembering YugoslaviaJovanka vs. MelaniaIn the last 75 years, two Yugoslav-born women were the First Lady of their respective countries: Jovanka Budisavljević was the third wife of Josip Broz Tito and Melania Knavs is the third wife of Donald John Trump. A look at similarities, differences, and legacies of two most famous ex-Yugoslav women. With Sonja Bjelobaba, Sandi Gorišek, and Mirjana Menković.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month.Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Jovanka-Melania/Instagram: @Reme...
2022-03-2153 minRemembering YugoslaviaI Am JugoslovenkaGenerations of Yugoslav women fought for Yugoslavia and then against the patriarchy in it. Many of them were artists, whose primary medium for their work were their own bodies. Art historian Jasmina Tumbas took the image of Jugoslovenka (Yugoslav Woman) from Lepa Brena’s eponymous song to tell the story of women’s emancipation within and through art in her new book, I Am Jugoslovenka! Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism.With Jasmina Cibic, Tanja Ostojić, Jasmina Tumbas, and Bojana Videkanić. Featuring “Jugoslovenka” cover by Nejra and Almir Kalajlić.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast exp...
2022-02-2134 minRemembering YugoslaviaSarajevo 1984 / 2030Thirty-eight years ago, on February 8th, 1984, 50,000 spectators attended the opening ceremony of the 14th Winter Olympic Games at the Koševo Stadium in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. For twelve ensuing days, 250,000 spectators and 2 billion television viewers watched nearly 1,300 athletes from 49 countries compete for medals…or simply participate. Sarajevo 1984 was the greatest sporting event in Yugoslavia’s history and the first Winter Olympics to be held in a socialist country. To many ex-Yugoslavs the Sarajevo Olympics are still that country’s brightest moment on the world stage, if not its last glorious hurrah. How did the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, the most...
2022-02-0746 minRemembering YugoslaviaBalkan Travel WritersWhen it comes to travel writing and the Balkans, the vast majority of literature is by Western authors; travel writing about the Balkans. What’s much less known is a significant body of travel writing literature authored by people from the Balkans, including the former Yugoslavia. In fact, Balkan (and ex-YU) writers have been traveling and living to tell the tales for some 150 years now. What’s all this travel writing from the Balkans about? Who are these Balkan travel writers, where do they travel, and what do they have to say about it? And how do they fit into...
2022-01-1752 minRemembering YugoslaviaHere Yugo AgainThe Yugo car headlined the inaugural episode of Remembering Yugoslavia. A part of the little Yugoslav car's story remained unexplored, the part that made the Yugo one of the best known automobiles in history—and turned it into a legend.Out of the 794,428 Yugos made between 1980 and 2008 in Kragujevac, 141,651 were sold in the U.S. In America, the Yugo went from fad to farce in just a few years. How did Zastava manage to sell the Yugo in the U.S.? Why was the Yugo both "the worst car in history" and a legend? And wh...
2021-12-271h 09Remembering YugoslaviaBonus: History of Yugoslavia 101Croatian historian Ivo Goldstein gives a short lecture on Yugoslavia's history in an attempt to answer the question, "Was Yugoslavia good or bad for its peoples?"The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month.Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Bonus-Ivo-Goldstein/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show
2021-12-2026 minRemembering YugoslaviaYugoslav CuisineThere was Yugoslav cuisine the same way there is European cuisine. At best, Yugoslav cuisine was an amalgam of cuisines of Yugoslavia’s constituent peoples, all of which can, in turn, be easily subsumed under a grander umbrella of Balkan cuisine. There is nary a more representative, metaphorical, and even iconic Balkan dish than sarma, or stuffed cabbage. Irina Janakievska, a Macedonia-born, London-based chef walks me through the process of making a sarma recipe from her grandmother's cookbook and through her journey to Balkan Kitchen. The Australian scholar, Wendy Bracewell tells all about Yugoslav cookbooks. And Natasha Tri...
2021-12-061h 04Remembering YugoslaviaThe Specter of DaytonYugoslavia continues to disintegrate. There’s Kosovo, there’s lingering territorial and financial disputes among successor countries...and there’s Republika Srpska. Last month, Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency and Republika Srpska’s strongman leader, announced the entity would annul a number of state laws and withdraw from the country’s institutions in order to establish the entity's full autonomy under the original Dayton Peace Agreement. While these steps would fall short of outright secession, the announcement sent chills across Bosnia and the region; the internationals and many Bosnians are worried at the prospect...
2021-11-221h 04Remembering YugoslaviaTwo Schools Under One RoofIn 2016, a cantonal government decided that, in one of the secondary schools in Jajce, which was following a Croatian curriculum for all the students, a separate school would be established on the premises for Bosniak students with a parallel Bosniak curriculum. The students in the integrated school rebelled and mounted a campaign to prevent their school from being segregated. After two years, the students prevailed and pressured the government into halting their school’s division into two.Fifty-six schools in 28 Bosnian towns and cities operate under a two schools under one roof system. Why do segregated schools ex...
2021-11-0846 minRemembering YugoslaviaSecondhand TitoA sea of ink has been spilled documenting the life and times of Josip Broz Tito. But Tito's biographies place his life against that of Yugoslavia, so that reading a biography of Tito means reading the history of the country. If you want to know about Tito the man, you’ll get a broad strokes picture, an outline, a composite, if not a caricature, that everyone fills with the story they want. For details that reveal his human side, you have to sift through texts like a gold prospector.There's another way to get to know the pe...
2021-10-2539 minRemembering YugoslaviaKarma PavilionsYugoslavia lives. It lives, among other things, in the architecture and infrastructure built during its existence. Buildings, roads, and monuments from the Yugoslav era keep that country and the memory of it not just alive but an integral, if sometimes invisible, part of everyday experience in Yugoslavia’s successor countries. The same goes for Czechoslovakia and its progeny. But the two countries also live on in a more poetic way, an ocean away, on an island at the edge of the North American continent. After they served their representative duties as Yugoslavia’s and Czechoslovakia’s pavilions at the...
2021-10-1254 minRemembering YugoslaviaBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon at 80Eighty years since its publication, Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia remains the most authoritative (and longest) book of travel writing on that former country. The book, which documents West’s travels through Yugoslavia in the second half of the 1930s, has been described as “astonishing,” “brilliant,” “remarkable,” “a supreme literary monument,” and “one of the most important books written about Europe in the last century.” It’s also been derided as biased, fictional, and factually flawed.What’s the big deal about this big book? Who was Rebecca West? And what makes the book relevant...
2021-09-201h 31Remembering YugoslaviaRobert D. Kaplan: The Ghosts of Balkan GhostsFew travel books have had as big a real-world impact as Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert Kaplan. Published in 1993, this account of Kaplan’s travels through Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Serbia in the late 1980s and 1990 purportedly influenced President Clinton’s policy in the region during the wars of Yugoslav dissolution. Kaplan’s portrayal of the relations among the peoples of former Yugoslavia created “the sense that nothing could be done by outsiders in a region so steeped in ancient hatreds” (Richard Holbrooke). The ancient hatreds thesis, which holds that Yugoslavia disintegrated in war beca...
2021-09-0642 minRemembering YugoslaviaYugoslav Killer, Qu'est-ce que c'estYugoslavia was the most aggressive among socialist countries in using assassinations as a means of protecting the state and the communist party. Over its 45-year existence, the UDBA, the Yugoslav State Security Service, dropped at least 80 bodies of its political enemies, mostly Croats, abroad. Some with the contracted assistance of Yugoslav mobsters. And after the death of Yugoslavia, members of state security services and their organized crime friends have played important roles in the newly independent states.A story of state-sponsored murder, organized crime, and justice.With Christian Axboe Nielsen, Paul Vidich, and Maria Vivod.
2021-08-231h 08Remembering YugoslaviaThe Great Bosnian EmigrationBosnians are leaving their country in droves. Why? And what can be done about it?With Samir Beharić, Elma Hodžić, Danijela Majstorović, and Nela Porobić Isaković. Featuring music by Dubioza Kolektiv.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month.Shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Bosnian-Emigration/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show
2021-08-0951 minRemembering YugoslaviaSvetlana Slapšak: A Yugoslav DissidentYugoslavia was a one-party system, and not everyone there liked it. One might get an impression Milovan Djilas was the only Yugoslav dissident. But there were thousands of Yugoslavs who criticized the regime, including Svetlana Slapšak who got involved in human rights advocacy in 1968 and has worked as an activist under Tito, Milošević, and Janša. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month.Shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Svetlana-Slapsak/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE S...
2021-07-2648 minRemembering YugoslaviaToward a Concrete UtopiaFrom July 2018 to January 2019, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980. The exhibition introduced socialist Yugoslavia’s architecture and architects to international audiences. It generated a ton of positive press and its impact continues to reverberate. What was Toward a Concrete Utopia and why was it such a big deal? How and why did the exhibition come about? What did it accomplish? With Vladimir Kulić, Justin McGuirk, Bojana Videkanić, and Sanja Horvatinčić. Featuring music by Detective Spook and Sunset Cruise.The Rememberi...
2021-07-1958 minRemembering YugoslaviaYugosplaining the WorldIn July 2020, a series of eighteen essays appeared on the Disorder of Things blog under the umbrella title, Yugosplaining the World. The project brought together 30 former Yugoslavs in the West to reflect "on what their lived experience can teach the US and other countries that are facing outbursts of nationalism, violence, and racism and help provide some avenues for addressing it or understanding it better." The Yugosplaining symposium also aimed to reclaim the authors’ own narratives from those presented by outsiders in order "to show Yugoslavia as a historical political project in a useful and relevant light." One...
2021-07-0632 minRemembering YugoslaviaDream of the Yugoslav '80sFor some two decades now the 1980s have been a rich referential resource for culture-makers across ex-Yugoslavia (and globally, of course). Re-releases and reunion tours. Music echoing the ’80s sound. Documentaries. TV shows. Movies. Theater productions. Art retrospectives. Exhibitions…Now that we’ve entered the temporal territory of 40th anniversaries of this and that from the era, it’s clear the “cultural virus of the 1980s” continues to afflict the region of former Yugoslavia.Why is that? What is it about the Yugoslav ’80s culture that is so worth reviving and that is so inspiring decades later...
2021-06-211h 15Remembering YugoslaviaA Galaksija Not So Far AwayDo you remember that time in the early days and weeks of the pandemic when you picked up a new hobby? You baked bread. You gardened. You crocheted. You refurbished furniture. You wrote a novel. You created a podcast... Vlado Vince built a Yugoslav computer. The little Galaksija, an 8-bit computer created by Voja Antonić that enthusiasts built themselves using instructions published in 1983 in Yugoslavia’s first computer magazine, had an enormous impact on Yugoslavia’s IT industry. And, like other 80s tech around the world, the Galaksija has enjoyed a revival in recent years. This is...
2021-05-3156 minRemembering YugoslaviaFrom Utopia to Dystopia at Petrova GoraThe Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija at Petrova Gora, or Peter’s Mountain, in central Croatia, belongs to the most notorious derelict Yugoslav-era monuments. In addition to a range of emotions, the Petrova Gora monument generates more questions than answers. What happened in the surrounding woods? Why build this sculpturally and architecturally exceptional behemoth on this forested hilltop? How did one of the biggest and most impressive World War II monuments in the world end up in such a state of dilapidation, decay, and desolation? While tourism, mostly unorganized, to the site continues to...
2021-05-1759 minRemembering YugoslaviaDiaspora Voices 3: Millenials in the UKDiaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. In this, the third installment, two millennials from Croatia living and pursuing their PhD in the UK share their stories, poems, and scholarly findings of emigration. Featuring the song "Uvelo misto" by Bobo & Saša Antić.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Croatian-Diaspora-Voices/Instagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon
2021-05-0445 minRemembering YugoslaviaMother Freedom, Father LandArt, bravery, and community in the lesser known corner of the former country. Or how one Macedonian artist carries her father's legacy and brings a town together at a Yugoslav-era monument. With Elena Chemerska, Vladimir Martinovski, Martin Milev, and Natalija Teodosijeva. Featuring songs by Bernays Propaganda, Martix, and The John & Space Rebel Gang.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month.Shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Kocani-Monument-to-Freedom/Instagram: @RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW:
2021-04-191h 05Remembering YugoslaviaThe YUruguayan ConnectionOn February 19th, 2015, Clemente Padín, the elder statesman of Uruguayan art, replied to an email from his compatriot and young artist Francisco Tomsich with a fateful attachment: a list of email and postal addresses of six Yugoslav mail artists. These were some of the people with whom Padín had corresponded in the 1970s and 80s and 90s as part of a mail art network.Padín’s list launched Tomsich into a story of surprising discoveries, unintended consequences, and, indeed, Yugoslavia as a cultural space; a story of art and the postal service and the threa...
2021-04-0557 minRemembering YugoslaviaMitja from the Russian BlocksThe top scholar of Yugonostalgia, professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, and ex-Yugoslav National Army cook, Mitja Velikonja, discusses his military service, the good and the bad of Yugoslavia and Slovenia, the evolution of Titostalgia, political graffiti in Central/Eastern Europe...and a lot more.Featuring the songs"Vjeran pas" by Slobodná Európa"Lugje od gradovi" by PMG KolektivThe Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.De...
2021-03-2943 minRemembering YugoslaviaLong Live 1940s GraffitiGraffiti dating back to the 1940s survive on walls of towns and villages from Ljubljana to the Istrian peninsula. Who wrote them and why? How did they make it this long? Helena Konda and Eric Ušić, who research these slogans, discuss the creation, meaning, and persistence of the 1940s graffiti.With Helena Konda and Eric Ušić. Featuring songs by Dem Crew, Soundcheck Regaz, and Eric Ušić.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three...
2021-03-2247 minRemembering YugoslaviaSpit and Sing, My Ex-Yugoslavia!Across former Yugoslavia and beyond, songs of the Partisan struggle, resistance, and revolution reverberate anew in the public square. Why is that? And who’s that singing over there? Four activist choirs tell their origin stories, explain how they re-purpose the legacy of past antifascist struggles, and, yes, sing.Featuring (excerpts of) the songs"Pesem upora," "El Pueblo Unido," "Bread and Roses," and "Bella Ciao" performed by Kombinat Women's Choir (Ljubljana, Slovenia)"Sebben che siamo donne," "Konjuh planinom," "Pjesma slobodi," "Bella Ciao," and "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" performed by Zbor Praksa (Pula, Croatia)"Bella Ci...
2021-03-081h 06Remembering YugoslaviaAll the Monument's a StageArtists have used Yugoslav World War II monuments as elements in their works to criticize official policies or inaction. In the process of performing such artistic interventions, these artists have created contemporary monuments. Three such artists, Siniša Labrović (Croatia), Elena Čemerska (North Macedonia), and D.A. Calf (Australia) discuss their interventions.Featuring the songs "Termopil" ("Termopylae") by Sara Renar (Croatia) and "A bre Makedonče" ("Macedonian Boy") performed by Zbor Praksa (Croatia).The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New...
2021-03-0147 minRemembering YugoslaviaDiaspora Voices 2: Home and CountryIn this installment of Diaspora Voices, an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad, three people on three different continents—Australia (Parramatta, NSW), North America (Vancouver, BC), and Europe (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)—share stories of their journeys to and through life in diaspora. Home, identity, nationalism, family, love...and that disappeared country that connects us across the planet and the ages.Featuring the songs "Vreme je" by Yugo Project (Cleveland, Ohio) and "Beneath the Tree" by ArHai (London, UK).The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Crea...
2021-02-2257 minRemembering YugoslaviaOn Spomenik PhotographyHow and when did the world's fascination with Yugoslav socialist monuments begin? Who started the fire and who is stoking it? Photographers Jan Kempenaers (Belgium) and Jonk (France) share their work on spomenici, sources of their inspiration, and views on the monuments' social media notoriety.Featuring the song "Spomenik" by Lepša Brena (Serbia).Graffiti, abandoned places, and assorted ruins also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.
2021-02-0832 minRemembering YugoslaviaTito and His BiographersMore than a generation after Tito’s death, biographies of the Yugoslav statesman keep appearing apace. Why is that? What else is there to say about Tito, his life, and his legacy? And how do all these books on the same subject of historical record differ?Three authors of biographies of Josip Broz Tito published since 2000—Ivo Goldstein, Jože Pirjevec, and Geoffrey Swain—discuss their motivations for writing, how their books are distinct, and, of course Tito himself.Featuring 11 versions of the song "Uz Maršala Tita" (With Marshal Tito, 1943).Josif Dzhugashvili, Vladimir...
2021-02-0152 minRemembering YugoslaviaThe Upside Down of Serbian Historical RevisionismHistorian Jelena Djureinović parses the trajectory and the many facets of historical revisionism in Serbia. Assorted presidents, collaborators, and royals also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed show notes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Jelena-DjureinovicInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaSUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: SubscriptionSupport the show
2021-01-2536 minRemembering YugoslaviaTravel Writing About Ex-YugoslaviaTravel writing about former Yugoslavia exploded in the 1990s as the country disintegrated in violence. The lessons the author of the first such account, Brian Hall, learned when he traveled through then-Yugoslavia in 1991 resonate today more than ever. Marija Krivokapić from the University of Montenegro helps place Brian’s book and those about Montenegro in the context of travel writing as a genre. And a story of a rare breed of travel writer: a former Yugoslav. The New York Times editors, an Irish cyclist, and a legendary sportscaster also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugo...
2021-01-1140 minRemembering YugoslaviaPictures of YUTwo photographers born in former Yugoslavia and living abroad, Olja Triaška Stefanović (Novi Sad, Serbia / Bratislava, Slovakia) and Dragana Jurišić (Slavonski Brod, Croatia / Dublin, Ireland) have (re)claimed the memory of their disappeared homeland through their art. Their photographs speak of searching, deep loss, fragmentary memory, and, in a way, closure. Bogdan Bogdanović, Rebecca West, and little Eskimos also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed show notes...
2021-01-0431 minRemembering YugoslaviaRock'n'Retro...or New Yugoslavism in Contemporary Popular Music in Former YugoslaviaParallel to Yugonostalgic enjoyment of Yugoslav-era music across the region, another related musical phenomenon emerged in the 1990s: original music glorifying Yugoslavia.In this episode of Remembering Yugoslavia: the music of New Yugoslavism.Thanks to the generosity of their creators, performers, and record labels, the episode features 12 songs:Zaklonišče Prepeva - "Jugoslavija Blues" (1998)Zabranjeno Pušenje - "Jugo 45" (1999)Tijana Dapčević - "Sve je isto samo njega nema" (2005)Magnifico - "Land of Champions" (2007)HZA - "Dragi Tito" (2007)Mirko - "Druže stari"...
2020-12-141h 14Remembering Yugoslavia“Happy Birthday, Yugoslavia!”... or A Field Report from the Days of AVNOJ Every last Saturday in November, several thousand people from all across former Yugoslavia gather in Jajce for Days of AVNOJ, an official celebration of Yugoslavia's founding at the Second Session of the Antifašističko vijeće narodnog oslobođenja Jugoslavije (Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia) which took place there on November 29, 1943. Political anthropologist Larisa Kurtović helps make sense of this event in this town in this day and age. Three thousand comrades, a third-term mayor, and a General Major of Tito’s Guard also make an...
2020-11-3048 minRemembering YugoslaviaPeace and Division in Bosnia and Herzegovina...or 25 Years of the Dayton Peace AccordsWhat has Dayton wrought and where do we go from here? Bosnian policy analysts and activists Gorana Mlinarević and Nela Porobić Isaković bring a feminist perspective to discuss the reality and legacy of the Dayton Peace Accords after a quarter century of implementation. Milan Lajčák, Miss Bosnia, and JFK also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed show notes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podca...
2020-11-2346 minRemembering YugoslaviaI Design YU DesignA Serbian and a North Macedonian graphic designer discuss Yugoslavian design as an inspiration for their work.A legendary Yugoslav designer, Donald Niebyl, and Alexander the Great also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed show notes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Yugoslavian-DesignInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-11-1623 minRemembering YugoslaviaDiaspora Voices 1: New LifeTwo members of the Serbian diaspora share their experiences leaving former Yugoslavia, making a new life in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and staying connected with their disappeared homeland. Plus a listener's letter from Australia.Nelson Mandela, Patreon members, and assorted Yugoslav sports stars also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Serbian-Diaspora-VoicesInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project...
2020-11-0943 minRemembering YugoslaviaAce of Spomenik DatabaseDonald Niebyl discusses the origin story and notoriety of his creation, Spomenik Database, and the fetishization of Yugoslav-era World War II monuments.Jan Kempenaers, Balkan bureaucrats, and warm and fuzzy feelings also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Donald-NiebylInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-11-0235 minRemembering YugoslaviaBalkan Travel SpiesForeign-born, Belgrade-based tour operators, Ralph van der Zijden, from the Netherlands (iBike Belgrade & Yugotour), and Tiago Carruco, from Portugal (Into the Balkans), share their passion for the place, how they started their businesses, thoughts on Yugoslavia, and how the covid pandemic has affected their operations.The Mayor of the Hague, a Belgrade taxi driver, and a giraffe also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Belgrade-Tour-OperatorsInstagram...
2020-10-2643 minRemembering YugoslaviaCroatia's Political TragedyHistorian Ivo Goldstein identifies the roots and actors of historical revisionism in Croatia.Croatian exiles, a Serbian war criminal, and Lauryn Hill also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Ivo-GoldsteinInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-10-1930 minRemembering YugoslaviaYugoslavia as an Alternative Political ProjectDirector of Ljubljana-based Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Tanja Petrović, discusses the new lives of Yugoslav objects, Yugonostalgia, and the political potential of socialist Yugoslavia today.American bombs, Yugoslav products, and Slovene Yugonostalgics also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Tanja-PetrovicInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-10-1232 minRemembering YugoslaviaMini Yugoslavia: A Field ReportPresident Goran Gabrić takes me on a walking tour of Mini Yugoslavia.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Mini-YugoslaviaInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-09-2836 minRemembering YugoslaviaCroatia's History IllnessHrvoje Klasić discusses historical revisionism in Croatia and life as a celebrity historian.A 1980’s president of Yugoslavia, Tito’s corpse, and rakija-guzzling neighbors also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Hrvoje-KlasicInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-09-2130 minRemembering YugoslaviaDas Ist MuseumElma Hodžić, curator at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, discusses the museum's memory-making activities over time and Bosnian post-war identity.Ordinary people, multiple Tito statues, and Valter also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Elma-HodzicInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-09-1432 minRemembering Yugoslavia12,000 Monuments (and Nothin' on Map)Art historian Vladana Putnik Prica of the University of Belgrade discusses inappropriate monuments, foreigners' interest and generational differences in locals' perception of spomeniks, and nostalgic songs.Partisans, Miodrag Živković, and, almost inevitably, Lepa Brena also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Vladana-Putnik-PricaInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-09-0731 minRemembering YugoslaviaYugofuturist Rock'n'RollPetar Janjatović, author of Ex-YU Rock Encyclopedia 1960-2015, discusses the endurance of Yugoslav rock and the political power of music. Serbian zombies, three presidents, and some expletives also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Petar-JanjatovicInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-08-3135 minRemembering YugoslaviaYugoslavia as Cultural SubversionMartin Pogačar, PhD, a research fellow at the Ljubljana-based Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, discusses the subversiveness of Yugoslav pop-culture and Yugoslavia's digital afterlives. Branimir Štulić, Slovenian subversives, cyber Yugoslavs and, of course, Tito, also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Martin-PogacarInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-08-2436 minRemembering YugoslaviaFuture Mo(nu)mentsSanja Horvatinčić, PhD, a researcher at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, applies a bottom-up, heritage-from-below methodology to analyze Yugoslav WWII monuments and modernist architecture. Uninformed bloggers, the former president of Croatia, and a weird dream also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast takes a journey through the memory of a disappeared country, exploring how the people of the former Yugoslav republics remember and imagine their former homeland, which no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Sanja-HorvatincicInstagram: Instagram.com/Re...
2020-08-1131 minRemembering YugoslaviaMade in YugodomMario Milaković, the founder of Yugodom, a stay over museum of mid-century modern Yugoslav design, discusses his creation, tourism, and Yugonostalgia. A Titovka cap, a red passport, and the Yugoslav Tootsie also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Mario-MilakovicInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-07-2732 minRemembering YugoslaviaThe Origin Story of Remembering YugoslaviaI, the creator, producer, and host of the Remembering Yugoslavia podcast, Peter Korchnak, tell the project's origin story. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Show notes and more: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Bonus-Origin-StoryInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-07-0309 minRemembering YugoslaviaThe New-New Life of Yugoslav Partisan SongsEthnomusicologist Ana Hofman discusses the history and revival of Yugoslav Partisan songs, performed today by activist choirs around former Yugoslavia. Featuring Partisan songs performed by Zbor Praksa and KIC Pop Hor. Bicycle-riding feminists and Lepa Brena also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Show notes and more: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Yugoslav-Partisan-SongsInstagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
2020-07-0333 minRemembering YugoslaviaYou Go, You Go, YugoThe inaugural episode of Remembering Yugoslavia is all about the Yugo car. Antonija Buntak, founder and principal of Yugocar Adventure, takes a drive through a brief history of the legendary vehicle, offers her take on the Croatian politics of retro, and shares the story of her love affair with Božo the Red One. Yugoslav yogurt, Jay Leno, and a bunch of other cars also make an appearance.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.D...
2020-07-0334 minRemembering YugoslaviaTrailer: What Does Yugoslavia Mean to You?The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month.Podcast website: RememberingYugoslavia.com/PodcastProject Instagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslaviaBecome a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslaviaDonate to support the project: PayPalSupport the show
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