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Remembering Yugoslavia

Peter Korchnak

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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#140
October 5 · 39 min
Memory Cakes
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: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#139
September 22 · 26 min
Pop Culture Against the Machine
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 transcript: Yugoblok.com/Serbia-Protests/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#138
August 24 · 18 min
Diaspora Voices 11: This House
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.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#137
July 27 · 23 min
Nostalgia in Flux
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. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Nostalgia-in-Flux/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#136
July 13 · 28 min
Abortion and the New Yugoslav Woman
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 exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Abortion/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#135
June 29 · 32 min
[Redux] Slavenka Drakulić
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/Slavenka-Drakulic-Redux/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#134
June 22 · 26 min
Yugophiles 2: Football, Fusion, and the Flag
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: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#133
June 8 · 38 min
[Redux] 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? 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 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/collective-nostalgia-redux/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#132
June 1 · 27 min
[Redux] The Future of Yugonostalgia
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, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/yugonostalgia-future-redux/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#131
May 18 · 26 min
The Youngest Yugoslavs
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 transcript: Yugoblok.com/Youngest-Yugoslavs/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#130
May 4 · 15 min
Diaspora Voices 10: Before the War
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.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#129
April 20 · 10 min
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 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.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#128
March 30 · 30 min
(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 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 country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Humanitarianism/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#127
March 16 · 22 min
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 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 podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/TeachingYugoslavArchitecture/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#126
February 24 · 32 min
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)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. * * * 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/Yugochina/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#125
January 27 · 19 min
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 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 memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Socially-Engaged-Music/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#124
January 5 · 16 min
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; 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 & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#123
Dec 22, 2025 · 23 min
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-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 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/Nonaligned-Literature-2/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#122
Dec 8, 2025 · 33 min
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 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. * * * 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/Nonaligned-Literature-Travelogues/ Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show
#121
Nov 3, 2025 · 14 min
[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 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.blok JOIN YUGOBLOK Support the show

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