Remembering Yugoslavia (Peter Korchnak)
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| 07 Feb 2022 | Sarajevo 1984 / 2030 | 00:46:53 | |
Thirty-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.
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| 21 Feb 2022 | I Am Jugoslovenka | 00:34:16 | |
Generations 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.
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| 21 Mar 2022 | Jovanka vs. Melania | 00:53:55 | |
In 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.
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| 04 Apr 2022 | Diaspora Voices 4: Third Culture Kids | 01:00:52 | |
The 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?
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| 13 Jun 2022 | Slavenka Drakulić: A European Person | 00:36:01 | |
A conversation with journalist and writer Slavenka Drakulić.
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| 27 Jun 2022 | Fićo Goes Back to the Future | 00:57:14 | |
There’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.
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| 25 Jul 2022 | Long Live Lepa Brena! | 00:43:49 | |
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.
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| 08 Aug 2022 | Island, Bared | 01:10:22 | |
A 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.
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| 26 Sep 2022 | Performing YU and EU in Kosovo | 01:15:25 | |
A 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.
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| 10 Oct 2022 | The Lost (and Last) Yugoslavs of Astoria, Oregon | 00:28:40 | |
The story of a tiny immigrant community in the first permanent American settlement west of the Mississippi.
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| 07 Nov 2022 | Bosnian Ice Hockey | 00:43:13 | |
When 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.
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| 22 Nov 2022 | Ex-YU Rock Center | 01:00:49 | |
Rock music is a huge part of Yugoslavia’s legacy. Soon, there will be a place in Sarajevo bringing Yugoslav rock back to life.
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| 12 Dec 2022 | Burek in Space | 00:59:37 | |
Burek 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.
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| 26 Dec 2022 | Jokers to the Right | 01:23:27 | |
What do you call Yugoslavia after Tito? Titanic.
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| 23 Jan 2023 | Inspired by Yugoslavia #1 | 00:45:10 | |
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.
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| 13 Feb 2023 | Inspired by Yugoslavia #2: New Belgrade | 00:58:55 | |
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.
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| 27 Feb 2023 | Inspired by Yugoslavia #3: Partisans | 00:46:09 | |
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| 13 Mar 2023 | Diaspora Voices 5: Identity and Community | 00:42:47 | |
Diaspora 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.
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| 10 Apr 2023 | The Jews of Sarajevo | 01:02:13 | |
Jews 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.
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| 24 Apr 2023 | The Future of Yugonostalgia | 00:52:35 | |
Yugonostalgia 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.
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| 15 May 2023 | An Incomplete Guide to (Post)Yugoslav Cinema | 01:05:23 | |
Let'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.
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| 29 May 2023 | One Day in Kumrovec | 01:04:46 | |
The 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).
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| 19 Jun 2023 | Vladimir Nazor: Dalmatian Poet, Croatian Politician, Yugoslav Partisan | 01:08:00 | |
Vladimir 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?
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| 03 Jul 2023 | On Trauma | 00:46:51 | |
There’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?
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| 14 Aug 2023 | Celluloid Retro | 01:23:03 | |
Films 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.
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| 29 Aug 2023 | Searching for Tito's Punks | 00:48:38 | |
In 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.
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| 11 Sep 2023 | Inspired by Yugoslavia #4: Designers (Mostly) | 00:31:52 | |
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.
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| 10 Oct 2023 | Diaspora Voices 6: Music and Love | 00:47:30 | |
Diaspora 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.
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| 13 Nov 2023 | Collective Nostalgia | 00:30:38 | |
Yugonostalgia 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?
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| 27 Nov 2023 | K67: The King of Kiosks | 01:06:03 | |
The 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.
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| 19 Dec 2023 | The Secret of Rakija | 01:24:57 | |
Rakija 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.
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| 01 Jan 2024 | Ask Me Anything | 00:18:40 | |
In which I answer listener questions...about anything (but strictly Yugoslavia-related).
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| 22 Jan 2024 | Sarajevo, USA | 00:52:26 | |
One 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.
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| 12 Feb 2024 | The Dissolution of Yugoslavia | 00:39:58 | |
Why did Yugoslavia fall apart?
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| 04 Mar 2024 | Travel Quests | 00:29:50 | |
On the road in the former Yugoslavia with a couple of Americans: one recreating his trip from 1984, the other looking for cheese.
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| 18 Mar 2024 | Red Dubrovnik | 00:32:37 | |
A 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.
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| 01 Apr 2024 | (Post)Partisan Women | 00:57:01 | |
One 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.
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| 22 Apr 2024 | #exyulit | 00:46:41 | |
Literature 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.
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| 13 May 2024 | Found in Translation | 00:32:53 | |
Literature 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).
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| 27 May 2024 | The Name of the Game: Yugoslav Football | 00:46:37 | |
The 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.
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| 01 Jul 2024 | Brotherhood and Unity on the Court | 00:41:21 | |
A 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. | |||
| 08 Jul 2024 | Introducing Yugoblok | 00:08:53 | |
Yugoblok is a global community for all who celebrate Yugoslavia’s legacy, cultivate its memory, and imagine its future possibilities. 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.
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| 23 Jul 2024 | Yugophiles of All Lands | 00:29:08 | |
All 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.
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| 12 Aug 2024 | Better Grave: Cemeteries in the Former Yugoslavia | 00:39:39 | |
A visit to cemeteries in the former Yugoslavia. With Carol Lilly.
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| 09 Sep 2024 | Diaspora Voices 7: Generations | 00:26:32 | |
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. This one started with an email.
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| 24 Sep 2024 | Found in Translation, Too | 00:44:06 | |
Literature 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.
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| 30 Sep 2024 | [Fragment] This Was a Graffiti | 00:12:45 | |
A story of a graffiti that may or may not have existed and of a very real documentary about it. An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment. With Valeriya Boyko.
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| 14 Oct 2024 | [Fragment] Servers of Yugoslavia | 00:10:27 | |
An illustrated story about a country that never existed. An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment.
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| 29 Oct 2024 | 100 | 01:07:58 | |
A look back, across 4+ years and 99 episodes, at the memory of a country that no longer exists.
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| 18 Nov 2024 | [Fragment] Yugo: The Non-Game | 00:12:18 | |
A story of a video game that’s really not a game. An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" fragment.
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| 25 Nov 2024 | [Fragment] Svakodnevnik: Unlived Memories of the Everyday | 00:11:00 | |
What if New Belgrade had an ocean beach? An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment.
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| 09 Dec 2024 | Ajvar Is Life | 00:41:17 | |
The story of a humble and versatile Balkan dish.
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| 06 Jan 2025 | Youth Work Actions | 01:11:19 | |
A deep dig into volunteering in the former Yugoslavia, from youth work actions of yesteryear to volunteer camps of today. With Michael Alpert, Goran Gabrić, and Amra Kazić.
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| 20 Jan 2025 | Who Is Walter? | 00:12:15 | |
Stories of WWII resistance, inspired by a familiar hero.
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| 10 Feb 2025 | Nonaligned Movement: An Introduction | 00:49:20 | |
An introduction to the Nonaligned Movement, its history, and its meaning for Yugoslavia, as well as reasons for a growing interest in it. With Paul Stubbs. Featuring music by Real Sounds of Africa. Part 1 of 6. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended episode featuring additional commentary, stories, analysis, archival footage, and music. 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.
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| 03 Mar 2025 | Nonaligned Movement: Yugoslavia, Liberation Struggles, and Palestine | 00:51:06 | |
Decolonization was a goal of the Nonaligned Movement as a prerequisite for peaceful coexistence; the Movement supported liberation movements and organizations in Africa and Asia. Throughout its post-WWII existence, Yugoslavia provided all forms of aid and assistance to the "peoples who conduct just struggle for their national independence and liberation from imperialism, colonialism, and all other form of national oppression and submission." A look at Yugoslavia’s support for decolonization and liberation movements in the Global South, with a particular focus on Palestine. With Paul Stubbs and Žiga Smolič. Featuring music by Mandalay Sein Mottah, Nai Barghouti, Rachid & Fethi and, U Tin. Part 2 of 6. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended episode featuring additional commentary, stories, analysis, archival footage, and music. 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.
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| 24 Mar 2025 | Nonaligned Movement: Exporting Self-Management, Building the World | 00:37:12 | |
Self-management was at the core of the identity of Yugoslav socialism and its best export. It was an outgrowth of nonalignment, the domestic expression of Yugoslavia's aspirations to play a global role and differentiate itself from the two power blocs. Yugoslavia’s nonalignment would not have been possible without self-management and Yugoslavia's self-management would not have been possible without nonalignment. With Goran Musić, Ljubica Spaskovska, and Želimir Anić. Featuring music by Five Revolutions, Groupe Amnar awal Libya, and Kemal Monteno. Part 3 of 6. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended episode featuring 20+ min. of additional commentary, stories, analysis, archival footage, and music. 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.
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| 03 Jul 2020 | Trailer: What Does Yugoslavia Mean to You? | 00:02:53 | |
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.
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| 03 Jul 2020 | You Go, You Go, Yugo | 00:34:28 | |
The 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.
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| 03 Jul 2020 | The New-New Life of Yugoslav Partisan Songs | 00:33:49 | |
Ethnomusicologist 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.
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| 03 Jul 2020 | The Origin Story of Remembering Yugoslavia | 00:09:16 | |
I, the creator, producer, and host of the Remembering Yugoslavia podcast, Peter Korchnak, tell the project's origin story.
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| 27 Jul 2020 | Made in Yugodom | 00:32:59 | |
Mario 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.
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| 11 Aug 2020 | Future Mo(nu)ments | 00:31:30 | |
Sanja 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.
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| 24 Aug 2020 | Yugoslavia as Cultural Subversion | 00:36:17 | |
Martin 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.
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| 31 Aug 2020 | Yugofuturist Rock'n'Roll | 00:35:40 | |
Petar 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.
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| 07 Sep 2020 | 12,000 Monuments (and Nothin' on Map) | 00:31:38 | |
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.
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| 14 Sep 2020 | Das Ist Museum | 00:32:21 | |
Elma 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.
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| 21 Sep 2020 | Croatia's History Illness | 00:30:47 | |
Hrvoje 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.
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| 28 Sep 2020 | Mini Yugoslavia: A Field Report | 00:36:07 | |
President Goran Gabrić takes me on a walking tour of Mini Yugoslavia.
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| 12 Oct 2020 | Yugoslavia as an Alternative Political Project | 00:32:46 | |
Director 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.
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| 19 Oct 2020 | Croatia's Political Tragedy | 00:30:48 | |
Historian 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.
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| 26 Oct 2020 | Balkan Travel Spies | 00:43:45 | |
Foreign-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.
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| 02 Nov 2020 | Ace of Spomenik Database | 00:35:44 | |
Donald Niebyl discusses the origin story and notoriety of his creation, Spomenik Database, and the fetishization of Yugoslav-era World War II monuments.
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| 09 Nov 2020 | Diaspora Voices 1: New Life | 00:43:02 | |
Two 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.
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| 16 Nov 2020 | I Design YU Design | 00:23:39 | |
A Serbian and a North Macedonian graphic designer discuss Yugoslavian design as an inspiration for their work.
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| 23 Nov 2020 | Peace and Division in Bosnia and Herzegovina | 00:46:08 | |
...or 25 Years of the Dayton Peace Accords
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| 30 Nov 2020 | “Happy Birthday, Yugoslavia!” | 00:48:30 | |
... or A Field Report from the Days of AVNOJ
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| 14 Dec 2020 | Rock'n'Retro | 01:14:02 | |
...or New Yugoslavism in Contemporary Popular Music in Former Yugoslavia Parallel 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:
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| 04 Jan 2021 | Pictures of YU | 00:31:26 | |
Two 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.
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| 11 Jan 2021 | Travel Writing About Ex-Yugoslavia | 00:40:43 | |
Travel 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.
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| 25 Jan 2021 | The Upside Down of Serbian Historical Revisionism | 00:36:40 | |
Historian Jelena Djureinović parses the trajectory and the many facets of historical revisionism in Serbia.
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| 01 Feb 2021 | Tito and His Biographers | 00:52:12 | |
More 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 Dedijer, and Phyllis Auty also make an appearance.
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| 08 Feb 2021 | On Spomenik Photography | 00:32:34 | |
How 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.
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| 22 Feb 2021 | Diaspora Voices 2: Home and Country | 00:57:44 | |
In 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).
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| 01 Mar 2021 | All the Monument's a Stage | 00:47:40 | |
Artists 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.
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| 08 Mar 2021 | Spit and Sing, My Ex-Yugoslavia! | 01:06:10 | |
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
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| 22 Mar 2021 | Long Live 1940s Graffiti | 00:47:47 | |
Graffiti 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.
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| 29 Mar 2021 | Mitja from the Russian Blocks | 00:43:23 | |
The 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
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| 05 Apr 2021 | The YUruguayan Connection | 00:57:58 | |
On 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 threads that connect us; a story of friendships spanning decades and dictatorships and continents and generations... With Henrike von Dewitz, Andrej Tišma, and Fransico Tomsich, Featuring the songs "Eskimo / Koka Kola," "Fabrika," and "Žene" by E.P.P.
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| 19 Apr 2021 | Mother Freedom, Father Land | 01:05:20 | |
Art, 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.
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| 04 May 2021 | Diaspora Voices 3: Millenials in the UK | 00:45:18 | |
Diaspora 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.
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| 17 May 2021 | From Utopia to Dystopia at Petrova Gora | 00:59:38 | |
The 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 grow and the Monument increasingly features in various pop culture productions, local activists lead small-scale efforts to keep the site alive. Is this enough? What else can and should be done here? And why does it all matter? Fallen Partisan fighters, detained migrants, and post-apocalyptic youths also make an appearance. With Sanja Horvatinčić, Donald Niebyl, and Aneta Vladimirov. Featuring the song “Sve ostaje nakon nas” by Žen.
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| 31 May 2021 | A Galaksija Not So Far Away | 00:56:47 | |
Do 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.
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| 20 Dec 2021 | Bonus: History of Yugoslavia 101 | 00:26:16 | |
Croatian 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?"
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| 21 Jun 2021 | Dream of the Yugoslav '80s | 01:15:43 | |
For 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? And where do we go from here? With Maša Kolanović, Martin Pogačar, Ljubica Spaskovska, and Mitja Velikonja. Featuring songs by Bastion, Detective Spook, PMG Kolektiv, Svemirko, and Yugo Project.
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| 05 Jul 2021 | Yugosplaining the World | 00:32:51 | |
In 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 year later, what did Yugosplaining get right (or wrong? What impact has the project had (if any)? What are its possible futures? With Aida Hozić, Jelena Subotić, and Srdjan Vučetić.
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| 19 Jul 2021 | Toward a Concrete Utopia | 00:58:42 | |
From 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.
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| 26 Jul 2021 | Svetlana Slapšak: A Yugoslav Dissident | 00:48:37 | |
Yugoslavia 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.
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| 09 Aug 2021 | The Great Bosnian Emigration | 00:51:07 | |
Bosnians are leaving their country in droves. Why? And what can be done about it?
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| 23 Aug 2021 | Yugoslav Killer, Qu'est-ce que c'est | 01:08:49 | |
Yugoslavia 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.
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