Remembering Yugoslavia

[Redux] The Future of Yugonostalgia 01.06.2026 27Min.

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 Youngest Yugoslavs 18.05.2026 26Min.

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 10: Before the War 04.05.2026 15Min.

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 9: Identity 20.04.2026 10Min.

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...

(Post)Yugoslav Humanitarianism 30.03.2026 30Min.

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...

Teaching Yugoslav Architecture 16.03.2026 22Min.

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...

Yugochina 23.02.2026 32Min.

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...

Socially Engaged Music 26.01.2026 19Min.

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 8: Pictures 05.01.2026 16Min.

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 & ...

Nonaligned Literature (Part 2) 22.12.2025 23Min.

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 ...

Nonaligned Literature (Part 1) 08.12.2025 33Min.

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...

[Fragment] Factories to the Workers? 03.11.2025 14Min.

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

Antifascism 20.10.2025 37Min.

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

[Fragment] Saving Motel Plitvice 15.09.2025 22Min.

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

[Fragment] Media & Me 18.08.2025 18Min.

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

[Fragment] The Track 04.08.2025 18Min.

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...

[Fragment] IKEA for YU 21.07.2025 20Min.

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...

[Redux] The Origin Story of Remembering Yugoslavia 07.07.2025 27Min.

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...

[Redux] You Go, You Go, Yugo 07.07.2025 17Min.

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...

Fjaka YU 30.06.2025 34Min.

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...