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
97 episodes
Diaspora Voices 7: Generations
Diaspora 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 coun...
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Episode 96
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26:32
Better Grave: Cemeteries in the Former Yugoslavia
A 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 e...
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Episode 95
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39:39
Yugophiles of All Lands
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...
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Episode 94
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29:08
Introducing Yugoblok
Yugoblok 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
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Episode 93
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8:53
Brotherhood and Unity on the Court
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.
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Episode 92
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41:21
The Name of the Game: Yugoslav Football
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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Episode 91
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46:37
Found in Translation
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).The Rememb...
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Episode 90
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32:53
#exyulit
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.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a co...
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Episode 89
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46:41
(Post)Partisan Women
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...
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Episode 88
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57:01
Red Dubrovnik
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.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of...
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Episode 87
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32:37
Travel Quests
On 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 po...
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Episode 86
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29:50
The Dissolution of Yugoslavia
Why 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 p...
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Episode 85
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39:58
Sarajevo, USA
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...
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Episode 84
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52:26
Ask Me Anything
In 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 ...
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Episode 83
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18:40
The Secret of Rakija
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 Raki...
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Episode 82
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1:24:57
K67: The King of Kiosks
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 d...
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Episode 81
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1:06:03
Collective Nostalgia
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?W...
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Episode 80
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30:38
Diaspora Voices 6: Music and Love
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...
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Episode 79
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47:30
Inspired 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 c...
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Episode 78
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31:52
Searching for Tito's Punks
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 M...
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Episode 77
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48:38
Celluloid Retro
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...
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Episode 76
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1:23:03
On Trauma
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...
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Episode 75
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46:51
Vladimir Nazor: Dalmatian Poet, Croatian Politician, Yugoslav Partisan
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...
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Episode 74
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1:08:00
One Day in Kumrovec
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? ...
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Episode 73
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1:04:46
An Incomplete Guide to (Post)Yugoslav Cinema
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 seven...
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Episode 72
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1:05:23