Remembering Yugoslavia

From reform to embargo, or the remembrance of cakes past. With Milena Jokanović (University of Belgrade) and Ivana Bajić-Hajduković (Syracuse University). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended, ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/memory-cakes/Instagram: @rememberin...

Anti-government protesters in Serbia carry banners that reference Yugoslav and American pop culture. Two of their peers set out to find out why. With Milena Dragićević Šešić and Tatjana Nikolić (University of Arts, Belgrade). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and...

Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. With Vedrana Govorčin (Vienna/Mostar). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices11/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOI...

Some ex-Yugoslavs switch between different kinds of nostalgia, depending on context. The fluctuations of yugonostalgia highlight Yugoslavia as an enduring social and moral category. With Jelena Golubović (Northeastern University, Boston). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. S...

Yugoslavia, not France, was the world's first country to enshrine the right to abortion in its constitution. Socialist Yugoslavia wielded reproductive regulation as a state and nation-building instrument to construct a unique communist project. With Branka Bogdan (New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia, 2025). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast explo...

Slavenka Drakulić has died. In remembrance, a remastered interview with the great Yugoslav-Croatian journalist and author from 2022. A redux of Episode 56, "Slavenka Drakulić: A European Person." * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Slav...

All around the world, there are people with zero Yugoslavia links and tons of Yugoslavia love. Today, we meet a yugophile in England. With Toby Kinder (England). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/yugophiles2/Instagram: @rememberingyug...

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? A redux of Episode 80 and the second in the "Nostalgia" series. With Anouk Smeekes and Borja Martinović (Utrecht University). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Y...

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). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, an...

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). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and trans...

Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. With David Rodich (Chicago). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices10/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOK...

Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. With Dijana Savić-Jambert (Chicago / Paris). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices9/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.bl...

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). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a count...

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). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok...

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). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended, ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * *&n...

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). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the...

Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. With Amina Horozić (Sarajevo / Detroit / Stockholm). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices8/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & ...

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). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for ...

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. * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended, ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remember...

A new online exhibition about self-management. With Vladimir Unkovski Korica and Anja Ilić. * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Factories-to-Workers/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

The history and the present of an international movement. With Vjekoslav Perica. * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended, ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Antifascism/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

An amateur photographer's quest to preserve the history of an iconic building. With Nik Maierle. * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Saving-Motel-Plitvice/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

A memoir through the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav media. With Lara Ranković (Mediji i ja). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Media-Me/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

A documentary film about Sarajevo’s Olympic bobsled and luge track and the people who ride it. With Ryan Sidhoo (The Track). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Track/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSuppor...

A documentary filmmaker's search for a post-Yugoslav identity at home and abroad. With Marija Ratković Vidaković (IKEA for YU). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; 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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/IKEA-for-YU/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN...

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). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended, ad-free episode featuring extra interview footage, stories, and analysis; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast e...

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. * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Y...

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: Chorvátska sezóna; Fjaka: A Croatian Season). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free...

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, Natalija Dimić Lompar, Ljiljana Kolešnik, Petra Matić, Goran Musić, Bojana Piškur, Ljubica Spaskovska, and Paul Stubbs. Featuring music by SZ (Creative Commons), Tolga Maktay (courtesy of Kosha Musika), Tetouze, and phrex (Creative Commons). Part 7 of 7. * * * R...

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 placed side by side with all that it could not. With Agustín Cosovschi, Natalija Dimić Lompar, and Damir Vučićević. Featuring music by Duo Aguayo Huayamabe (courtesy of Caife) and Jazzaria (Creative Commons). Part 6 of 7. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia...

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 people from 90 political parties, liberation movements, and countries of the Global South, with foreign students receiving professional, military, and university training and education in the country for various periods. But the program also had an ugly s...

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 of decolonization and peaceful coexistence. In the process, a global network of cultural exchanges and a distinct version of modernism (PLUS) developed. With Bojana Piškur and Ljiljana Kolešnik. Featuring music by Baligh Hamdi and Koudede, courtesy...

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 R...

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 a...

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 7. * * * 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. Cr...

Stories of WWII resistance, inspired by a familiar hero. With Nicolas Moll (Wer Ist Walter?). 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/Wer-Ist-Walter/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

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. 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/Youth-Work-Actions/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

The story of a humble and versatile Balkan dish. With Aida Ibišević, Irina Janakievska, and Vjosa Musliu. Featuring music by Fakat, FK Basket, Meraque, Mr. Ajvar, Tonci Huljić & Madre Badessa, Typol, and Yasserstain. 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, transcript, and extended version: Yugoblok.com/Ajvar/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YU...

What if New Belgrade had an ocean beach? An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment. The country of Yugoslavia may no longer appear on any physical maps, but it remains on many people’s mental maps and it inspires their creativity. The Inspired by Yugoslavia series features such people and their creations. With Unknown Author AKA Svakodnevnik. Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. N...

A story of a video game that’s really not a game. An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" fragment. The country of Yugoslavia may no longer appear on any physical maps, but it remains on many people’s mental maps and it inspires their creativity. The Inspired by Yugoslavia series features such people and their creations. With Petrit Hoxha. Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episode...

A look back, across 4+ years and 99 episodes, at the memory of a country that no longer exists. 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, transcript, and extended version: Yugoblok.com/One-Hundred/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

An illustrated story about a country that never existed. An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment. The country of Yugoslavia may no longer appear on any physical maps, but it remains on many people’s mental maps and it inspires their creativity. The Inspired by Yugoslavia series features such people and their creations. With Miloš Kozlovački. Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. ...

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. The country of Yugoslavia may no longer appear on any physical maps, but it remains on many people’s mental maps and it inspires their creativity. The Inspired by Yugoslavia series features such people and their creations. With Valeriya Boyko. Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created,...

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. Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring 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: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices7Instagr...

Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. This one started with an email. With Tanya Pikula (Sarajevo / Toronto). Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring 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: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices7Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

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 episodes one to two times per month. Show notes, transcript and extended version: Yugoblok.com/Better-GraveInstagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

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. Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted...

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 new home for my writing. 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-...

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. 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. Support the show

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. 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-Yugoslav-FootballInstag...