Remembering Yugoslavia

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 Westerns, from Black Wave to Prague School, and from films of remembrance to war movies, this is seventy years of cinematic history in a single arc.

With Dijana Jelača and Sanjin Pejković. 


The 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.

• Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Yugoslav-Cinema
• Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia
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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 do different people experience it? And where is it headed? 

A deep dive in the yugonostalgia plus a comparison with nostalgia in the former Czechoslovakia.

With Milica Popović and Boris Strečanský. Featuring music by Polemic & Medial Banana.


The 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.

• Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Yugonostalgia
• Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia
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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 Bosnian War. This is their story.

With Jakob Finci* and Francine Friedman. Featuring music by Shira Utfila and Flory Jagoda.

* Bonus episode featuring the full interview with Finci available exclusively to Patreon and other supporters.


The 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.

• Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Jews-of-Sarajevo
• Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia
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Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad. In this installment of Diaspora Voices, a Vlach-American from Eastern Serbia and a Yugoslav-Australian from Slavonia share stories of their journeys to themselves and their tribes. 

With Daniela Vančić and Denis Svob. Featuring music by Šizike and Mechanism of Action.


The 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.

• Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Diaspora-Voices-4
• Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia
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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 forever as a political entity, it lives on as a cultural project.

Yugoslavia's material and cultural production inspires many people to make art and products. And a lot of them have little or even no lived experience in or memory of it.

These are their stories.

Part 3 of many: Partisans.

With Daniel Skoric (Comrade Commando), Darko Nikolovski (Join the Partisans) and Ana Radovcich (Unuka Partizana). Featuring music by Nikolovski.


The 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.

• Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Inspired-by-Yugoslavia3
• Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia
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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 forever as a political entity, it lives on as a cultural project.

Yugoslavia's material and cultural production inspires many people to make art and products. And a lot of them have little or even no lived experience in or memory of it.

These are their stories.

Part 2 of many. With Igor Simić (Golf Club Wasteland), Jovana Radujko (Brutalizam i Renesansa), and Donald Niebyl ([New Belgrade Database]). Featuring music by Autopark (Belgrade) and from Radio Nostalgia from Mars: Golf Club Wasteland (Original Game Soundtrack).


The 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.

• Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Inspired-by-Yugoslavia2
• Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia
• SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: Subscription

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 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 forever as a political entity, it lives on as a cultural project.

Yugoslavia's material and cultural production inspires many people to make art and products. And a lot of them have little or even no lived experience in or memory of it.

These are their stories.

Part 1 of many: With Kaja Šišmanović & Matija Hajdarhodžić (Future Yugoslavia), Vjosa Musliu (Yugoslawomen Plus), and Rima Sabina Aouf (Yugo: A Graphic Biography). Featuring music by Aaron Tinjum & the Tangents and PMG Kolektiv.


The 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.

• Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Inspired-by-Yugoslavia1
• Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia
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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 Yugoslavia joke about and, most importantly, why? What about the post-Yugoslav landscape of laughter?

With Zenit Djozić (Top Lista Nadrealista) and Marina Orsag (Croatian stand-up). Featuring music by Los Kretenos.


The 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.

• Extended version AKA Encore: Patreon
• Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Yugoslav-Humor
• Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia
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Burek is a pastry dish comprising thin layers of dough and a variety of fillings—a quintessential Balkan breakfast staple, late night snack, or anytime-anywhere fast-food delight, really. Burek is also a metaphor that varies across the former Yugoslav lands. Burek is food is life is culture is politics is burek. 

With Irina Janakievska, Ksenija Hotić, and Spasia Dinkovski. Featuring music by Ali En, Best Burek, Burek, Burek Brothers Trio, Dosh Lee, Las Balkanieras, Vlada i Teoretičari Zavere, and Voodoo Popeye.


The 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.

• Extended version AKA Seconds: Patreon
• Show notes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Burek-in-Space
• Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia
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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, Zenit Djozić, and Petar Janjatović. Featuring songs by Zed Mitchell, Yugo Project, Zabranjeno Pušenje, Uroš Andrijašević, and more.


The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes once or twice per month.

• Shownotes and transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-ExYURockCenter/
• Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia
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