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
Rock'n'Retro
...or New Yugoslavism in Contemporary Popular Music in Former Yugoslavia Parallel to Yugonostalgic enjoyment of Yugoslav-era music across the region, another related musical phenomenon emerged in the ...
14 Dec 20201h 14min
“Happy Birthday, Yugoslavia!”
... or A Field Report from the Days of AVNOJ Every last Saturday in November, several thousand people from all across former Yugoslavia gather in Jajce for Days of AVNOJ, an official celebration of ...
30 Nov 202048min
Peace and Division in Bosnia and Herzegovina
...or 25 Years of the Dayton Peace Accords What has Dayton wrought and where do we go from here? Bosnian policy analysts and activists Gorana Mlinarević and Nela Porobić Isaković bring a feminist per...
23 Nov 202046min
