Remembering Yugoslavia
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.
Episodes
What is Yugonostalgia and why does it exist? How does it manifest and how do different people experience it? And where is it headed?
A redux of Episode 71 and the first in the new "Nostalgia" series.
With Milica Popović (Austrian Academy of Sciences).
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The last generation of Yugoslavs remembers Yugoslavia fondly but critically. A new oral history book recounts how their youth in the lost country made a lasting impact on their lives.
With Jovana Babović (SUNY Geneseo).
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Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.
With David Rodich (Chicago).
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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 and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices10/
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Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.
With Dijana Savić-Jambert (Chicago / Paris).
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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 and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Di...
The Yugoslav Red Cross promoted a version of humanitarianism that served its geopolitical goals. After the fall of socialism, nonaligned humanitarianism vanished and was replaced by liberal humanitarianism, with real consequences on the ground in Montenegro and elsewhere.
With Čarna Brković (University of Mainz).
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Remembering Yugo...
Architecture in the former Yugoslavia is also a learning tool. Study trips from a prominent architecture school explore Yugoslav architecture to teach important lessons, from authenticity to nostalgia to sustainability, for designing the built environment.
With David Di Duca and Tetsuro Nagata (Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London).
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Yugoslavia was important for China's identity-building, development, and world-making. The post-Yugoslav-Chinese relations are very much shaped by Yugoslavia. A new book spotlights the history and the present of China's involvement with (ex)Yugoslavia.
With Anastas Vangeli (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Dragan Pavlićević (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, Suzhou, China).
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In both socialist Yugoslavia and postwar Croatia some music reflected on and critiqued the present and envisaged a better tomorrow. Today such socially engaged music also rebuilds cultural ties across post-Yugoslav borders.
With Ana Marković (The Socio-political Significance of Socially Engaged Music in Post-Yugoslav Space).
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Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.
With Amina Horozić (Sarajevo / Detroit / Stockholm).
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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 and transcript: Yugoblo...
Yugoslavia cultivated extensive literary connections with its nonaligned friends. Writers from Yugoslavia traveled to nonaligned countries and brought back accounts of their observations and experiences, published in the press and as book-length travelogues; and many authors and culture workers fostered literary networks with fellow nonaligned countries. Part 2 of 2.
With Nataša Kovačević (University of East Michigan).
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Yugoslavia cultivated extensive literary connections with its nonaligned friends. Writers from Yugoslavia (journalists, diplomats, culture workers, artists, scholars) traveled to nonaligned countries and brought back accounts of their observations and experiences, published in the press and as book-length travelogues. Part 1 of 2.
With Iva Kosmos and Nebojša Djordjević.
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A new online exhibition about self-management.
With Vladimir Unkovski Korica and Anja Ilić.
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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 and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Factories-to-Workers/
- Instagram: @rememberingy...
The history and the present of an international movement.
With Vjekoslav Perica.
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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 and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Antifascism/
- Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavi...
An amateur photographer's quest to preserve the history of an iconic building.
With Nik Maierle.
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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 and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Saving-Motel-Plitvice/
- Instagram: @r...
A memoir through the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav media.
With Lara Ranković (Mediji i ja).
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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 and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Media...
A documentary film about Sarajevo’s Olympic bobsled and luge track and the people who ride it.
With Ryan Sidhoo (The Track).
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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 and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Track/
- Instag...
A documentary filmmaker's search for a post-Yugoslav identity at home and abroad.
With Marija Ratković Vidaković (IKEA for YU).
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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 and transcript: Yugoblok.com/IKE...
Remembering 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).
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Remembering Yugoslavia the podcast is FIVE years old! A gift to you in celebration of our 5th birthday: a revised and remastered version of the podcast's inaugural episode.
There's a company in Zagreb that rents and gives tours in Yugo cars. Let's go for a ride!
With Antonija Buntak (Yugocar Adventure) and Božo the Red Yugo. Birthday song by Ekrem Jevrić and Svega City.
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The untranslatable word fjaka describes "a very particular state of mind when you desire nothing more than to gaze off into the distance and abandon all forms of activity. It's “the art of doing nothing" and "a yearning for nothingness." It's also the title of the latest book of travel writing about the former Yugoslavia, out of Poland.
With Aleksandra Wojtaszek (Fjaka: Sezon na Chorwację / Fjaka: Chorv...
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