Remembering Yugoslavia
Episodes
Diaspora Voices 9: Identity
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.With Dijana Savić-Jambert (Chicago / Paris).* * * On Remembe...
(Post)Yugoslav Humanitarianism
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Yugoslav Red Cross promoted a version of humanitarianism that served its geopolitical goals. After the fall of socialism, nonaligned humanitariani...
Teaching Yugoslav Architecture
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture in the former Yugoslavia is also a learning tool. Study trips from a prominent architecture school explore Yugoslav architecture to teach...
Yugochina
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Yugoslavia was important for China's identity-building, development, and world-making. The post-Yugoslav-Chinese relations are very much shaped b...
Socially Engaged Music
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In both socialist Yugoslavia and postwar Croatia some music reflected on and critiqued the present and envisaged a better tomorrow. Today such sociall...
Diaspora Voices 8: Pictures
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.With Amina Horozić (Sarajevo / Detroit / Stockholm).Remember...
Nonaligned Literature (Part 2)
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yugoslavia cultivated extensive literary connections with its nonaligned friends. Writers from Yugoslavia traveled to nonaligned countries and brought...
Nonaligned Literature: Travelogues
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yugoslavia cultivated extensive literary connections and networks with its nonaligned friends. First, travelogues: writers from Yugoslavia (journalist...
[Fragment] Factories to the Workers?
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new online exhibition about self-management.With Vladimir Unkovski Korica and Anja Ilić.* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; e...
Antifascism
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The history and the present of an international movement. With Vjekoslav Perica.* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive f...
[Fragment] Saving Motel Plitvice
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An amateur photographer's quest to preserve the history of an iconic building.With Nik Maierle.* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free e...
[Fragment] Media & Me
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A memoir through the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav media.With Lara Ranković (Mediji i ja).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; excl...
[Fragment] The Track
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A documentary film about Sarajevo’s Olympic bobsled and luge track and the people who ride it.With Ryan Sidhoo (The Track).* * * On Remembering Yugo...
[Fragment] IKEA for YU
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A documentary filmmaker's search for a post-Yugoslav identity at home and abroad. With Marija Ratković Vidaković (IKEA for YU).* * * On Rememb...
[Redux] The Origin Story of Remembering Yugoslavia
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 expandi...
[Redux] You Go, You Go, Yugo
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 podcas...
Fjaka YU
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The untranslatable word fjaka describes "a very particular state of mind when you desire nothing more than to gaze off into the distance and aban...
Nonaligned Movement: After Yugoslavia
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The post-Cold War / post-Yugoslav history of the Nonaligned Movement. Vestiges and legacy of nonalignment in Yugoslavia and elsewhere. The future of n...
Nonaligned Movement: Limits
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nonalignment had its limits. For all its accolades and accomplishments, for all its pomp and prestige, the Nonaligned Movement constantly bumped again...
Nonaligned Movement: Education
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Student scholarships were a huge part of Yugoslavia’s nonaligned diplomacy and one of the most tangible and visible ways Yugoslav citizens experienc...
Nonaligned Movement: Arts and Culture
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yugoslavia pursued its own socialist path in the realm of culture, too, exporting its production to the Global South to showcase its progress. Though ...
Nonaligned Movement: Economy
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Self-management was at the core of the identity of Yugoslav socialism and its best export. It was an outgrowth of nonalignment, the domestic expressio...
Nonaligned Movement: Liberation Movements
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Decolonization was a goal of the Nonaligned Movement as a prerequisite for peaceful coexistence; the Movement supported liberation movements and organ...
Nonaligned Movement: Introduction
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Stu...
Who Is Walter?
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stories of WWII resistance, inspired by a familiar hero.With Nicolas Moll (Wer Ist Walter?).Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the...
Youth Work Actions
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A deep dig into volunteering in the former Yugoslavia, from youth work actions of yesteryear to volunteer camps of today.With Michael Alpert, Goran Ga...
Ajvar Is Life
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of a humble and versatile Balkan dish.With Aida Ibišević, Irina Janakievska, and Vjosa Musliu. Featuring music by Fakat, FK Basket, Meraqu...
[Fragment] Svakodnevnik: Unlived Memories of the Everyday
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if New Belgrade had an ocean beach? An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment.The country of Yugoslavia may no longer appear on any physical...
[Fragment] Yugo: The Non-Game
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
100
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
[Fragment] Servers of Yugoslavia
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An illustrated story about a country that never existed. An "Inspired by Yugoslavia" Fragment.The country of Yugoslavia may no longer appear...
[Fragment] This Was a Graffiti
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 cou...
Found in Translation, Too
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Diaspora Voices 7: Generations
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. This one started with an email. With Tanya Pikula.Rememberin...
Better Grave: Cemeteries in the Former Yugoslavia
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Yugophiles of All Lands
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. "...
Introducing Yugoblok
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yugoblok is a global community for all who celebrate Yugoslavia’s legacy, cultivate its memory, and imagine its future possibilities.Yugoblok grew o...
Brotherhood and Unity on the Court
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A look at Yugoslavia's most successful sport. Why do people remember Yugoslavia so fondly through basketball? Why was Yugoslavia so good at baske...
The Name of the Game: Yugoslav Football
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The world’s most popular sport played a role in the creation of socialist Yugoslavia, in promoting the ideology of brotherhood and unity, and ultima...
Found in Translation
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 (T...
#exyulit
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Da...
(Post)Partisan Women
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One hundred thousand women fought in the Yugoslav Partisan forces and two million more provided support to the resistance (and revolution) in the rear...
Red Dubrovnik
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A walk through Yugoslavia's legacy in Dubrovnik and a visit to the Red History Museum. With Krešimir Glavinić (Red History Museum). Featuring ...
Travel Quests
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Dissolution of Yugoslavia
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why did Yugoslavia fall apart?With Susan L. Woodward.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Create...
Sarajevo, USA
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One in three Bosnians live outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Most Bosnians outside their country, about 87 percent, are dispersed around Europe. Thou...
Ask Me Anything
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which I answer listener questions...about anything (but strictly Yugoslavia-related).The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a co...
The Secret of Rakija
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 bot...
K67: The King of Kiosks
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Collective Nostalgia
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Diaspora Voices 6: Music and Love
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. In this installment, a Canadian and an Australian with Croat...
Inspired by Yugoslavia #4: Designers (Mostly)
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fore...
Searching for Tito's Punks
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 decade...
Celluloid Retro
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Learne...
On Trauma
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Vladimir Nazor: Dalmatian Poet, Croatian Politician, Yugoslav Partisan
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vladimir Nazor was a poet, Partisan, and politician. His greatness and popularity endured through five regimes/countries. Who was Croatia's great...
One Day in Kumrovec
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 an...
An Incomplete Guide to (Post)Yugoslav Cinema
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 W...
The Future of Yugonostalgia
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yugonostalgia is like a vessel that everyone fills with their own ideas and meanings. What is it and why does it exist? How does it manifest and how d...
The Jews of Sarajevo
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jews have been part of Sarajevo's human tapestry since the 16th century, only to be "discovered' by the rest of the world during the Bo...
Diaspora Voices 5: Identity and Community
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. In this installment of Diaspora Voices, a Vlach-American fro...
Inspired by Yugoslavia #3: Partisans
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fore...
Inspired by Yugoslavia #2: New Belgrade
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fore...
Inspired by Yugoslavia #1
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
 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 fo...
Jokers to the Right
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do you call Yugoslavia after Tito? Titanic.It's the end of the year, time to get serious about humor. What did people in the former Yugoslav...
Burek in Space
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Burek is a pastry dish comprising thin layers of dough and a variety of fillings—a quintessential Balkan breakfast staple, late night snack, or anyt...
Ex-YU Rock Center
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rock music is a huge part of Yugoslavia’s legacy. Soon, there will be a place in Sarajevo bringing Yugoslav rock back to life. With Will Richard, Z...
Bosnian Ice Hockey
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you think of sports in Yugoslavia, ice hockey doesn’t exactly skate to mind. But not only does hockey have a tradition in the former Yugoslavia...
The Lost (and Last) Yugoslavs of Astoria, Oregon
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The story of a tiny immigrant community in the first permanent American settlement west of the Mississippi.With Djordje Čitović.The Remembering Yugo...
Performing YU and EU in Kosovo
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A close look at how Yugoslavia and the European Union, both supranational entities with uneven economic development and riven by nationalism, strive(d...
Island, Bared
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A barren island in the Adriatic Sea was between 1949 and 1956 the site of an internment camp where Tito's regime sent its opponents for "re-...
Long Live Lepa Brena!
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lepa Brena was the most famous Yugoslav singer of the 1980s. Her popularity during the decade eclipsed that of the late Tito. She remains the greatest...
Fićo Goes Back to the Future
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a Yugoslav car that was even more important than the Yugo for the country and for the country’s memory. Better known by its nickname, Fić...
Slavenka Drakulić: A European Person
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with journalist and writer Slavenka Drakulić.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists...
Diaspora Voices 4: Third Culture Kids
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The scars of the Siege of Sarajevo have marked an entire generation of Sarajevans—and their children. How do children of Bosnian refugees growing up...
Jovanka vs. Melania
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the last 75 years, two Yugoslav-born women were the First Lady of their respective countries: Jovanka Budisavljević was the third wife of Josip Br...
I Am Jugoslovenka
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Generations of Yugoslav women fought for Yugoslavia and then against the patriarchy in it. Many of them were artists, whose primary medium for their w...
Sarajevo 1984 / 2030
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty-eight years ago, on February 8th, 1984, 50,000 spectators attended the opening ceremony of the 14th Winter Olympic Games at the Koševo Stadium...
Balkan Travel Writers
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to travel writing and the Balkans, the vast majority of literature is by Western authors; travel writing about the Balkans. What’s muc...
Here Yugo Again
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Yugo car headlined the inaugural episode of Remembering Yugoslavia. A part of the little Yugoslav car's story remained unexplored, the part t...
Bonus: History of Yugoslavia 101
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Croatian historian Ivo Goldstein gives a short lecture on Yugoslavia's history in an attempt to answer the question, "Was Yugoslavia good or...
Yugoslav Cuisine
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There was Yugoslav cuisine the same way there is European cuisine. At best, Yugoslav cuisine was an amalgam of cuisines of Yugoslavia’s constituent ...
The Specter of Dayton
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yugoslavia continues to disintegrate. There’s Kosovo, there’s lingering territorial and financial disputes among successor countries...and there’...
Two Schools Under One Roof
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, a cantonal government decided that, in one of the secondary schools in Jajce, which was following a Croatian curriculum for all the students,...
Secondhand Tito
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A sea of ink has been spilled documenting the life and times of Josip Broz Tito. But Tito's biographies place his life against that of Yugoslavia...
Karma Pavilions
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yugoslavia lives. It lives, among other things, in the architecture and infrastructure built during its existence. Buildings, roads, and monuments fro...
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon at 80
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eighty years since its publication, Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia remains the most authoritative (and long...
Robert D. Kaplan: The Ghosts of Balkan Ghosts
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Few travel books have had as big a real-world impact as Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert Kaplan. Published in 1993, this account of ...
Yugoslav Killer, Qu'est-ce que c'est
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yugoslavia was the most aggressive among socialist countries in using assassinations as a means of protecting the state and the communist party. Over ...
The Great Bosnian Emigration
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bosnians are leaving their country in droves. Why? And what can be done about it?With Samir Beharić, Elma Hodžić, Danijela Majstorović, and Nela P...
Svetlana Slapšak: A Yugoslav Dissident
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yugoslavia was a one-party system, and not everyone there liked it. One might get an impression Milovan Djilas was the only Yugoslav dissident. But th...
Toward a Concrete Utopia
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From July 2018 to January 2019, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, ...
Yugosplaining the World
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2020, a series of eighteen essays appeared on the Disorder of Things blog under the umbrella title, Yugosplaining the World. The project broug...
Dream of the Yugoslav '80s
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For some two decades now the 1980s have been a rich referential resource for culture-makers across ex-Yugoslavia (and globally, of course). Re-release...
A Galaksija Not So Far Away
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you remember that time in the early days and weeks of the pandemic when you picked up a new hobby? You baked bread. You gardened. You crocheted. Yo...
From Utopia to Dystopia at Petrova Gora
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija at Petrova Gora, or Peter’s Mountain, in central Croatia, belongs to the most notori...
Diaspora Voices 3: Millenials in the UK
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. In this, the third installment, two millennials from Croatia...
Mother Freedom, Father Land
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Art, bravery, and community in the lesser known corner of the former country. Or how one Macedonian artist carries her father's legacy and brings...
The YUruguayan Connection
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On February 19th, 2015, Clemente PadÃn, the elder statesman of Uruguayan art, replied to an email from his compatriot and young artist Francisco Toms...
Mitja from the Russian Blocks
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The top scholar of Yugonostalgia, professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, and ex-Yugoslav National Army cook, Mitja Velikonja, d...