Remembering Yugoslavia

By Peter KorchnakSociety & Culture Documentary Science Social Sciences History

Remembering Yugoslavia episodes

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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27 min
May 04Diaspora Voices 10: Before the War
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.
With David Rodich (Chicago).

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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-Voices10/
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April 20Diaspora Voices 9: Identity
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.
With Dijana Savić-Jambert (Chicago / Paris).

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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-Voices9/
Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok
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11 min
March 30(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).

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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/Humanitarianism/
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31 min
March 16Teaching 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).
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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/TeachingYugoslavArchitecture/
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23 min
February 24Yugochina
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).

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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/Yugochina/
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33 min
January 27Socially 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).

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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/Socially-Engaged-Music/
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20 min
January 05Diaspora Voices 8: Pictures
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.
With Amina Horozić (Sarajevo / Detroit / Stockholm).

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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-Voices8/
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17 min
December 22, 2025Nonaligned 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).

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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/Nonaligned-Literature-2/
Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blok
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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.