The Yugoslav Red Cross promoted a version of humanitarianism that served its geopolitical goals. After the fall of socialism, nonaligned humanitarianism vanished and was replaced by liberal humanitarianism, with real consequences on the ground in Montenegro and elsewhere.

With Čarna Brković (University of Mainz).

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Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.

• Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Humanitarianism/
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Architecture in the former Yugoslavia is also a learning tool. Study trips from a prominent architecture school explore Yugoslav architecture to teach important lessons, from authenticity to nostalgia to sustainability, for designing the built environment.

With David Di Duca and Tetsuro Nagata (Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London).

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Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.

• Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/TeachingYugoslavArchitecture/
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Yugoslavia was important for China's identity-building, development, and world-making. The post-Yugoslav-Chinese relations are very much shaped by Yugoslavia. A new book spotlights the history and the present of China's involvement with (ex)Yugoslavia.

With Anastas Vangeli (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Dragan Pavlićević (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, Suzhou, China).

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Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.

• Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Yugochina/
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In both socialist Yugoslavia and postwar Croatia some music reflected on and critiqued the present and envisaged a better tomorrow. Today such socially engaged music also rebuilds cultural ties across post-Yugoslav borders.

With Ana Marković (The Socio-political Significance of Socially Engaged Music in Post-Yugoslav Space).

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Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.

• Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Socially-Engaged-Music/
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Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.

With Amina Horozić (Sarajevo / Detroit / Stockholm).

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Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.

• Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices8/
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Yugoslavia cultivated extensive literary connections with its nonaligned friends. Writers from Yugoslavia traveled to nonaligned countries and brought back accounts of their observations and experiences, published in the press and as book-length travelogues; and many authors and culture workers fostered literary networks with fellow nonaligned countries. Part 2 of 2.

With Nataša Kovačević (University of East Michigan).

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Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.

• Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Nonaligned-Literature-2/
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Yugoslavia cultivated extensive literary connections with its nonaligned friends. Writers from Yugoslavia (journalists, diplomats, culture workers, artists, scholars) traveled to nonaligned countries and brought back accounts of their observations and experiences, published in the press and as book-length travelogues. Part 1 of 2.

With Iva Kosmos and Nebojša Djordjević.

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Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.

• Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Nonaligned-Literature-Travelogues/
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A new online exhibition about self-management.

With Vladimir Unkovski Korica and Anja Ilić.

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Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.

• Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Factories-to-Workers/
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