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 SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: Subscription

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.<!--more--> 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 SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: Subscription

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

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 SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: Subscription

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 SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: Subscription

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 SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: Subscription

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 SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: Subscription

When you think of sports in Yugoslavia, ice hockey doesn’t exactly skate to mind. But not only does hockey have a tradition in the former Yugoslavia, in one unexpected part of the disappeared country the beautiful game is on the up and up. With Amil Delić and Will Richard. 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 Overtime: Patreon Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Bosnian-Ice-Hockey Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon :: PayPal :: Subscription

The story of a tiny immigrant community in the first permanent American settlement west of the Mississippi. With Djordje Čitović. 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. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Yugoslavs-Astoria-Oregon/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

A close look at how Yugoslavia and the European Union, both supranational entities with uneven economic development and riven by nationalism, strive(d) to change institutions, structures, economies as well as behavior and practices in Kosovo in order to build a certain kind of state and society in their image. With Vjosa Musliu. Featuring music by Gjurmët and Diadema. 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. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-YU-EU-Kosovo/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

A barren island in the Adriatic Sea was between 1949 and 1956 the site of an internment camp where Tito's regime sent its opponents for "re-education." At Goli Otok, the newly minted anti-Stalinists were fighting Stalinists with Stalinist methods. How did the prison and labor camp at Naked Island come about and what happened there? How do people remember and commemorate this dark stain in Yugoslavia's history? With Tiha Gudac. Featuring songs titled "Goli Otok" by Ratsmagick, Valter i Perspektiva, and Voyvoda. 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. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Goli-Otok/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

Lepa Brena was the most famous Yugoslav singer of the 1980s. Her popularity during the decade eclipsed that of the late Tito. She remains the greatest and best-selling Yugoslav pop star. But Lepa Brena was more than a pop icon: she continues to personify Yugoslavia for many to this day. What's her story? And what does she mean for Yugoslavia's memory? With Olga Dimitrijević. Featuring a cover of "Jugoslovenka" by Inje. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Lepa-Brena-Yugoslav/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

There’s a Yugoslav car that was even more important than the Yugo for the country and for the country’s memory. Better known by its nickname, Fića / Fićo / Fićko, Zastava 750 was the first Yugoslav car. It was and continues to be a Yugoslav icon, a symbol of that disappeared country and an object of nostalgia. In metaphorical terms, Fićo is Yugoslavia…and probably always will be. This is Fića's story. With Martin Pogačar and Jovana Stojiljković. Featuring the song "Piči Fića" by Sabrija Vulić. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Fico-Zastava-750/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

A conversation with journalist and writer Slavenka Drakulić. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Slavenka-Drakulic/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

The scars of the Siege of Sarajevo have marked an entire generation of Sarajevans—and their children. How do children of Bosnian refugees growing up abroad form their identity? What culture do they belong to? Where is home? And what of Yugonostalgia among the post-1991 cohort? An installment of the Diaspora Voices series. With Anja Savčić and Arnela Išerić. Co-produced with Jelena Sofronijević. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Third-Culture-Kids/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

In the last 75 years, two Yugoslav-born women were the First Lady of their respective countries: Jovanka Budisavljević was the third wife of Josip Broz Tito and Melania Knavs is the third wife of Donald John Trump. A look at similarities, differences, and legacies of two most famous ex-Yugoslav women. With Sonja Bjelobaba, Sandi Gorišek, and Mirjana Menković. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Jovanka-Melania/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

Generations of Yugoslav women fought for Yugoslavia and then against the patriarchy in it. Many of them were artists, whose primary medium for their work were their own bodies. Art historian Jasmina Tumbas took the image of Jugoslovenka (Yugoslav Woman) from Lepa Brena’s eponymous song to tell the story of women’s emancipation within and through art in her new book, I Am Jugoslovenka! Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism. With Jasmina Cibic, Tanja Ostojić, Jasmina Tumbas, and Bojana Videkanić. Featuring “Jugoslovenka” cover by Nejra and Almir Kalajlić. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Jugoslovenka/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

Thirty-eight years ago, on February 8th, 1984, 50,000 spectators attended the opening ceremony of the 14th Winter Olympic Games at the Koševo Stadium in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. For twelve ensuing days, 250,000 spectators and 2 billion television viewers watched nearly 1,300 athletes from 49 countries compete for medals…or simply participate. Sarajevo 1984 was the greatest sporting event in Yugoslavia’s history and the first Winter Olympics to be held in a socialist country. To many ex-Yugoslavs the Sarajevo Olympics are still that country’s brightest moment on the world stage, if not its last glorious hurrah. How did the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, the most unlikely of events held in a unique period of the Cold War, come about? What stories did these Olympics tell and what memories did it engender? And what is their future? With Jason Vuic and Sanela Klarić. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Sarajevo-1984-Winter-Olympics/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

When it comes to travel writing and the Balkans, the vast majority of literature is by Western authors; travel writing about the Balkans. What’s much less known is a significant body of travel writing literature authored by people from the Balkans, including the former Yugoslavia. In fact, Balkan (and ex-YU) writers have been traveling and living to tell the tales for some 150 years now. What’s all this travel writing from the Balkans about? Who are these Balkan travel writers, where do they travel, and what do they have to say about it? And how do they fit into the whole travel writing genre? With Wendy Bracewell. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Balkan-Travel-Writers/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›

The Yugo car headlined the inaugural episode of Remembering Yugoslavia. A part of the little Yugoslav car's story remained unexplored, the part that made the Yugo one of the best known automobiles in history—and turned it into a legend. Out of the 794,428 Yugos made between 1980 and 2008 in Kragujevac, 141,651 were sold in the U.S. In America, the Yugo went from fad to farce in just a few years. How did Zastava manage to sell the Yugo in the U.S.? Why was the Yugo both "the worst car in history" and a legend? And what of the Yugo in America today? With Jason Vuic, Al Staggs, Jim Ruiz, and Valerie Hansen. Featuring songs by Leftwing Fascists and The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. New episodes two to three times per month. Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia.com/Podcast-Yugo-Car/ Instagram: @RememberingYugoslavia SUPPORT THE SHOW ›