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
130 episodes
Diaspora Voices 9: Identity
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.With Dijana Savić-Jambert (Chicago / Paris).* * * On Remembering Yug...
(Post)Yugoslav Humanitarianism
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 ...
Teaching Yugoslav Architecture
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 ...
Yugochina
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)Yug...
Socially Engaged Music
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...
Diaspora Voices 8: Pictures
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.With Amina Horozić (Sarajevo / Detroit / Stockholm).* * * On Remembe...
Nonaligned Literature (Part 2)
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-lengt...
Nonaligned Literature (Part 1)
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 observati...
[Fragment] Factories to the Workers?
A new online exhibition about self-management.With Vladimir Unkovski Korica and Anja Ilić.* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; ...
Antifascism
The history and the present of an international movement. With Vjekoslav Perica.* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended, ad-free epis...
[Fragment] Saving Motel Plitvice
An amateur photographer's quest to preserve the history of an iconic building.With Nik Maierle.* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free epis...
[Fragment] Media & Me
A memoir through the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav media.With Lara Ranković (Mediji i ja).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free epi...
[Fragment] The Track
A documentary film about Sarajevo’s Olympic bobsled and luge track and the people who ride it.With Ryan Sidhoo (The Track).* * * On Remembering Yugo...
[Fragment] IKEA for YU
A documentary filmmaker's search for a post-Yugoslav identity at home and abroad. With Marija Ratković Vidaković (IKEA for YU).* * * On Remembe...
[Redux] The Origin Story of Remembering Yugoslavia
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 P...
[Redux] You Go, You Go, Yugo
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 i...
Fjaka YU
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...
Nonaligned Movement: After Yugoslavia
The post-Cold War / post-Yugoslav history of the Nonaligned Movement. Vestiges and legacy of nonalignment in Yugoslavia and elsewhere. The future of nonalignment and of explorations thereof.With Rima Sabina Aouf, Agustín Cosovschi, Natal...
Nonaligned Movement: Limits
Nonalignment had its limits. For all its accolades and accomplishments, for all its pomp and prestige, the Nonaligned Movement constantly bumped against reality. All that Yugoslavia achieved with its foreign policy of nonalignment must be place...
Nonaligned Movement: Education
Student 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 pe...
Nonaligned Movement: Arts and Culture
Yugoslavia pursued its own socialist path in the realm of culture, too, exporting its production to the Global South to showcase its progress. Though the Nonaligned Movement lacked a policy on culture, cultural cooperation was part and parcel o...
Nonaligned Movement: Economy
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 powe...
Nonaligned Movement: Liberation Movements
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...