Antifascism*
The history and the present of an international movement.
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Youth Work Actions
A deep dig into volunteering in the former Yugoslavia, from youth work actions of yesteryear to volunteer camps of today.
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Sarajevo, USA
One in three Bosnians live outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina, most of whom are dispersed around Europe. Though only about 10% live in the U.S., the country is home to the biggest Bosnian city abroad.
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The Jews of Sarajevo*
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.
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Performing YU and EU in Kosovo
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.
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Island, Bared: The Goli Otok Prison and Its Memory
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 Bare Island come about and what happened there? How do people remember and commemorate this dark stain in Yugoslavia’s history?
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Jovanka vs. Melania (Podcast Ep. 54)
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.
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History of Yugoslavia 101 (Podcast Ep. 49 – Bonus)
Croatian historian Ivo Goldstein gives a short lecture on Yugoslavia’s history in an attempt to answer the question, “Was Yugoslavia good or bad for its peoples?”
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Karma Pavilions
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia live on in a poetic way. After they served their representative duties as Yugoslavia’s and Czechoslovakia’s pavilions at the Expo 67 world fair in Montreal, both buildings were repurposed as cultural institutions in small communities on the island of Newfoundland.
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Robert Kaplan: The Ghosts of Balkan Ghosts (Podcast Episode 42)
Few travel books have had as big a real-world impact as Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert Kaplan.
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The YUruguayan Connection: The Lost World of Yugoslav Mail Art (Podcast Episode 31)
On February 19th, 2015, Clemente Padín, the elder statesman of Uruguayan art, replied to an email from his compatriot and young artist Francisco Tomsich with a fateful attachment:
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Mitja from the Russian Blocks and the Deficit of Yugoslavia
The top scholar of yugonostalgia, professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, and ex-Yugoslav National Army cook, Mitja Velikonja, discusses his military service, the good and the bad of Yugoslavia, the evolution of Titostalgia, political graffiti in Central/Eastern Europe…and a lot more.
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Long Live 1940s Graffiti
Graffiti dating back to the 1940s survive on walls of towns and villages from Ljubljana to the Istrian peninsula. Who wrote them and why? How did they make it this long?
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Travel Writing About Ex-Yugoslavia (Podcast Ep. 22)
Travel writing about ex-Yugoslavia exploded in the 1990s as the country disintegrated in violence. The lessons the author of the first such account, Brian Hall, learned when he traveled through then-Yugoslavia in 1991 resonate today more than ever.
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Remembering 29 November, Dan Republike (Republic Day)
Every last Saturday in November, several thousand people from all across former Yugoslavia gather in Jajce for Days of AVNOJ, an official celebration of Yugoslavia’s founding, and the former holiday Day of the Republic.
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Diaspora Voices 1: New Life
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.
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Ace of Spomenik Database – Donald Niebyl (Podcast Episode 15)
Donald Niebyl discusses the origin story and notoriety of his project, Spomenik Database, and the fetishization of Yugoslav-era World War II monuments.
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Croatia’s History Illness – Hrvoje Klasić (Podcast Episode 10)
Hrvoje Klasić discusses historical revisionism in Croatia and life as a celebrity historian.
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