Latest Yugoslavia Podcast Episodes
The Name of the Game: Yugoslav Football
Remembering Yugoslavia - May 27, 2024 17:00 - 46 minutesThe 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 count...
Found in Translation
Remembering Yugoslavia - May 13, 2024 20:00 - 32 minutesLiterature 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 ex...
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Remembering Yugoslavia - April 22, 2024 16:00 - 46 minutesLiterature 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...
(Post)Partisan Women
Remembering Yugoslavia - April 01, 2024 20:00 - 57 minutesOne 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 Li...
Red Dubrovnik
Remembering Yugoslavia - March 18, 2024 21:00 - 32 minutesA 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...
Travel Quests
Remembering Yugoslavia - March 04, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutesOn 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. Create...
The Dissolution of Yugoslavia
Remembering Yugoslavia - February 12, 2024 23:00 - 39 minutesWhy 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-...
Sarajevo, USA
Remembering Yugoslavia - January 22, 2024 19:00 - 52 minutesOne 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...
Ask Me Anything
Remembering Yugoslavia - January 01, 2024 14:00 - 18 minutesIn 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: R...
The Secret of Rakija
Remembering Yugoslavia - December 19, 2023 03:00 - 1 hourRakija 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)...
K67: The King of Kiosks
Remembering Yugoslavia - November 27, 2023 22:00 - 1 hourThe 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 ...
Collective Nostalgia
Remembering Yugoslavia - November 13, 2023 20:00 - 30 minutesYugonostalgia 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 exten...
Diaspora Voices 5: Music and Love
Remembering Yugoslavia - October 10, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutesDiaspora 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 Yugosl...
Inspired by Yugoslavia #4: Designers (Mostly)
Remembering Yugoslavia - September 11, 2023 15:00 - 31 minutesThe 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 pr...
Searching for Tito's Punks
Remembering Yugoslavia - August 29, 2023 02:00 - 48 minutesIn 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, Defia...
Celluloid Retro
Remembering Yugoslavia - August 14, 2023 19:00 - 1 hourFilms 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...
On Trauma
Remembering Yugoslavia - July 03, 2023 23:00 - 46 minutesThere’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? ...
Vladimir Nazor: Dalmatian Poet, Croatian Politician, Yugoslav Partisan
Remembering Yugoslavia - June 19, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourVladimir 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 p...
One Day in Kumrovec
Remembering Yugoslavia - May 29, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourThe 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.* ...
An Incomplete Guide to (Post)Yugoslav Cinema
Remembering Yugoslavia - May 15, 2023 10:00 - 1 hourLet'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...
The Future of Yugonostalgia
Remembering Yugoslavia - April 24, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutesYugonostalgia 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 Czecho...
The Jews of Sarajevo
Remembering Yugoslavia - April 10, 2023 18:00 - 1 hourJews 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 i...
Diaspora Voices 4: Searching for Identity and Community
Remembering Yugoslavia - March 13, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutesDiaspora 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...
Diaspora Voices 5: Searching for Identity and Community
Remembering Yugoslavia - March 13, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutesDiaspora 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...
Inspired by Yugoslavia #3: Partisans
Remembering Yugoslavia - February 27, 2023 07:00 - 46 minutesThe 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.<!--more--> Yugoslavia's material and cultural production inspires many people to make...
Inspired by Yugoslavia #2: New Belgrade
Remembering Yugoslavia - February 13, 2023 08:00 - 58 minutesThe 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 p...
Inspired by Yugoslavia #1
Remembering Yugoslavia - January 23, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutesThe 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 ...
Jokers to the Right
Remembering Yugoslavia - December 26, 2022 09:00 - 1 hourWhat 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 O...
Burek in Space
Remembering Yugoslavia - December 12, 2022 17:00 - 59 minutesBurek 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 p...
Ex-YU Rock Center
Remembering Yugoslavia - November 22, 2022 04:00 - 1 hourRock 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...
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