Remembering Yugoslavia

Two members of the Serbian diaspora share their experiences leaving former Yugoslavia, making a new life in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and staying connected with their disappeared homeland. Plus a listener's letter from Australia. Nelson Mandela, Patreon members, and assorted Yugoslav sports stars also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a c...

Donald Niebyl discusses the origin story and notoriety of his creation, Spomenik Database, and the fetishization of Yugoslav-era World War II monuments. Jan Kempenaers, Balkan bureaucrats, and warm and fuzzy feelings also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four time...

Foreign-born, Belgrade-based tour operators, Ralph van der Zijden, from the Netherlands (iBike Belgrade & Yugotour), and Tiago Carruco, from Portugal (Into the Balkans), share their passion for the place, how they started their businesses, thoughts on Yugoslavia, and how the covid pandemic has affected their operations. The Mayor of the Hague, a Belgrade taxi driver, and a giraffe also make an...

Historian Ivo Goldstein identifies the roots and actors of historical revisionism in Croatia. Croatian exiles, a Serbian war criminal, and Lauryn Hill also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month. Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast...

Director of Ljubljana-based Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Tanja Petrović, discusses the new lives of Yugoslav objects, Yugonostalgia, and the political potential of socialist Yugoslavia today. American bombs, Yugoslav products, and Slovene Yugonostalgics also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted...

President Goran Gabrić takes me on a walking tour of Mini Yugoslavia. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month. Detailed shownotes: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Mini-Yugoslavia Instagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslavia Become a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYu...

Hrvoje Klasić discusses historical revisionism in Croatia and life as a celebrity historian. A 1980’s president of Yugoslavia, Tito’s corpse, and rakija -guzzling neighbors also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month. Detailed shownotes: Remembering...

Elma Hodžić, curator at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, discusses the museum's memory-making activities over time and Bosnian post-war identity. Ordinary people, multiple Tito statues, and Valter also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four tim...

Art historian Vladana Putnik Prica of the University of Belgrade discusses inappropriate monuments, foreigners' interest and generational differences in locals' perception of spomeniks , and nostalgic songs. Partisans, Miodrag Živković, and, almost inevitably, Lepa Brena also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Cr...

Petar Janjatović, author of Ex-YU Rock Encyclopedia 1960-2015, discusses the endurance of Yugoslav rock and the political power of music. Serbian zombies, three presidents, and some expletives also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month. Detailed sh...

Martin Pogačar, PhD, a research fellow at the Ljubljana-based Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, discusses the subversiveness of Yugoslav pop-culture and Yugoslavia's digital afterlives. Branimir Štulić, Slovenian subversives, cyber Yugoslavs and, of course, Tito, also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created...

Sanja Horvatinčić, PhD, a researcher at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, applies a bottom-up, heritage-from-below methodology to analyze Yugoslav WWII monuments and modernist architecture. Uninformed bloggers, the former president of Croatia, and a weird dream also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast takes a journey through the memory of a disappeared country, exploring h...

Mario Milaković, the founder of Yugodom, a stay over museum of mid-century modern Yugoslav design, discusses his creation, tourism, and Yugonostalgia. A Titovka cap, a red passport, and the Yugoslav Tootsie also make an appearance. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per mont...

I, the creator, producer, and host of the Remembering Yugoslavia podcast, Peter Korchnak, tell the project's origin story.  The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month. Show notes and more: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Bonus-Origin-Story Instagram: Instagram.com/R...

Ethnomusicologist Ana Hofman discusses the history and revival of Yugoslav Partisan songs, performed today by activist choirs around former Yugoslavia. Featuring Partisan songs performed by Zbor Praksa and KIC Pop Hor. Bicycle-riding feminists and Lepa Brena also make an appearance.  The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Pe...

The inaugural episode of Remembering Yugoslavia is all about the Yugo car. Antonija Buntak, founder and principal of Yugocar Adventure, takes a drive through a brief history of the legendary vehicle, offers her take on the Croatian politics of retro, and shares the story of her love affair with Božo the Red One. Yugoslav yogurt, Jay Leno, and a bunch of other cars also make an appearance. The Reme...

The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to four times per month. Podcast website: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast Project Instagram: Instagram.com/RememberingYugoslavia Become a patron: Patreon.com/RememberingYugoslavia Donate to support the project: PayPal Support the show