Remembering Yugoslavia
Peter Korchnak
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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.
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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…
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…
Diaspora Voices 8: Pictures
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;…
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…
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…
[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; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering…
Antifascism
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…
[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 episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * *…
[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 episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering…
[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 Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for…
[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 Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for…
[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,…
[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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Remembering Yugoslavia has published 127 episodes since July 2020, covering topics in Documentary, History.
Remembering Yugoslavia is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 43m.
