Spit and Sing, My Ex-Yugoslavia!
Across former Yugoslavia and beyond, songs of the Partisan struggle, resistance, and revolution reverberate anew in the public square. Why is that? And who’s that singing over there? Four activist cho...
8 Mar 20211h 6min
All the Monument's a Stage
Artists have used Yugoslav World War II monuments as elements in their works to criticize official policies or inaction. In the process of performing such artistic interventions, these artists have cr...
1 Mar 202147min
Diaspora Voices 2: Home and Country
In this installment of Diaspora Voices, an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad, three people on three different continents—Australia (Parramatta, NSW), North America (Va...
22 Feb 202157min
On Spomenik Photography
How and when did the world's fascination with Yugoslav socialist monuments begin? Who started the fire and who is stoking it? Photographers Jan Kempenaers (Belgium) and Jonk (France) share their work ...
8 Feb 202132min
Tito and His Biographers
More than a generation after Tito’s death, biographies of the Yugoslav statesman keep appearing apace. Why is that? What else is there to say about Tito, his life, and his legacy? And how do all these...
1 Feb 202152min
The Upside Down of Serbian Historical Revisionism
Historian Jelena Djureinović parses the trajectory and the many facets of historical revisionism in Serbia. Assorted presidents, collaborators, and royals also make an appearance. The Remembering ...
25 Jan 202136min
Travel Writing About Ex-Yugoslavia
Travel writing about former 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 th...
11 Jan 202140min
Pictures of YU
Two photographers born in former Yugoslavia and living abroad, Olja Triaška Stefanović (Novi Sad, Serbia / Bratislava, Slovakia) and Dragana Jurišić (Slavonski Brod, Croatia / Dublin, Ireland) have (r...
4 Jan 202131min
