Remembering Yugoslavia
Episodes
Long Live 1940s Graffiti
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Graffiti dating back to the 1940s survive on walls of towns and villages from Ljubljana to the Istrian peninsula. Who wrote them and why? How did they...
Spit and Sing, My Ex-Yugoslavia!
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Across former Yugoslavia and beyond, songs of the Partisan struggle, resistance, and revolution reverberate anew in the public square. Why is that? An...
All the Monument's a Stage
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artists have used Yugoslav World War II monuments as elements in their works to criticize official policies or inaction. In the process of performing ...
Diaspora Voices 2: Home and Country
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this installment of Diaspora Voices, an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad, three people on three different contine...
On Spomenik Photography
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How and when did the world's fascination with Yugoslav socialist monuments begin? Who started the fire and who is stoking it? Photographers Jan K...
Tito and His Biographers
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
More than a generation after Tito’s death, biographies of the Yugoslav statesman keep appearing apace. Why is that? What else is there to say about ...
The Upside Down of Serbian Historical Revisionism
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Jelena Djureinović parses the trajectory and the many facets of historical revisionism in Serbia. Assorted presidents, collaborators, and ...
Travel Writing About Ex-Yugoslavia
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Travel writing about former Yugoslavia exploded in the 1990s as the country disintegrated in violence. The lessons the author of the first such accoun...
Pictures of YU
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two photographers born in former Yugoslavia and living abroad, Olja Triaška Stefanović (Novi Sad, Serbia / Bratislava, Slovakia) and Dragana Juriši...
Rock'n'Retro
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
...or New Yugoslavism in Contemporary Popular Music in Former YugoslaviaParallel to Yugonostalgic enjoyment of Yugoslav-era music across the region, a...
“Happy Birthday, Yugoslavia!”
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
... or A Field Report from the Days of AVNOJ Every last Saturday in November, several thousand people from all across former Yugoslavia gather in Jajc...
Peace and Division in Bosnia and Herzegovina
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
...or 25 Years of the Dayton Peace AccordsWhat has Dayton wrought and where do we go from here? Bosnian policy analysts and activists Gorana Mlinarevi...
I Design YU Design
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A Serbian and a North Macedonian graphic designer discuss Yugoslavian design as an inspiration for their work.A legendary Yugoslav designer, Donald Ni...
Diaspora Voices 1: New Life
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two members of the Serbian diaspora share their experiences leaving former Yugoslavia, making a new life in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and s...
Ace of Spomenik Database
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Niebyl discusses the origin story and notoriety of his creation, Spomenik Database, and the fetishization of Yugoslav-era World War II monument...
Balkan Travel Spies
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Foreign-born, Belgrade-based tour operators, Ralph van der Zijden, from the Netherlands (iBike Belgrade & Yugotour), and Tiago Carruco, from Portu...
Croatia's Political Tragedy
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Ivo Goldstein identifies the roots and actors of historical revisionism in Croatia.Croatian exiles, a Serbian war criminal, and Lauryn Hill ...
Yugoslavia as an Alternative Political Project
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Director of Ljubljana-based Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Tanja Petrović, discusses the new lives of Yugoslav objects, Yugonostalgia, and ...
Mini Yugoslavia: A Field Report
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
President Goran Gabrić takes me on a walking tour of Mini Yugoslavia.The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no long...
Croatia's History Illness
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hrvoje Klasić discusses historical revisionism in Croatia and life as a celebrity historian.A 1980’s president of Yugoslavia, Tito’s corpse, and ...
Das Ist Museum
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elma Hodžić, curator at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, discusses the museum's memory-making activities over time and Bosnian ...
12,000 Monuments (and Nothin' on Map)
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Art historian Vladana Putnik Prica of the University of Belgrade discusses inappropriate monuments, foreigners' interest and generational differe...
Yugofuturist Rock'n'Roll
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Petar Janjatović, author of Ex-YU Rock Encyclopedia 1960-2015, discusses the endurance of Yugoslav rock and the political power of music. Serbian zom...
Yugoslavia as Cultural Subversion
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Pogačar, PhD, a research fellow at the Ljubljana-based Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, discusses the subversiveness of Yugoslav pop-c...
Future Mo(nu)ments
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sanja Horvatinčić, PhD, a researcher at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, applies a bottom-up, heritage-from-below methodology to analyze Yugo...
Made in Yugodom
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mario Milaković, the founder of Yugodom, a stay over museum of mid-century modern Yugoslav design, discusses his creation, tourism, and Yugonostalgia...
The Origin Story of Remembering Yugoslavia
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I, the creator, producer, and host of the Remembering Yugoslavia podcast, Peter Korchnak, tell the project's origin story. The Remembering Yugos...
The New-New Life of Yugoslav Partisan Songs
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ethnomusicologist Ana Hofman discusses the history and revival of Yugoslav Partisan songs, performed today by activist choirs around former Yugoslavia...
You Go, You Go, Yugo
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The inaugural episode of Remembering Yugoslavia is all about the Yugo car. Antonija Buntak, founder and principal of Yugocar Adventure, takes a drive ...
Trailer: What Does Yugoslavia Mean to You?
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to f...