Remembering Yugoslavia

By Peter KorchnakSociety & Culture Documentary Science Social Sciences History

Remembering Yugoslavia episodes

October 05Memory Cakes
From reform to embargo, or the remembrance of cakes past.
With Milena Jokanović (University of Belgrade) and Ivana Bajić-Hajduković (Syracuse University).

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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/
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September 22Pop 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).

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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/
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August 24Diaspora Voices 11: This House
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.
With Vedrana Govorčin (Vienna/Mostar).

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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/
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19 min
July 27Nostalgia 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).

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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/
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July 13Abortion 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).

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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/
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29 min
June 29[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."

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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/
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June 22Yugophiles 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).

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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/
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June 08[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).

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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/
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June 01[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).
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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/
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28 min
May 18The 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).

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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/
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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.