Exploring the Podcast: Outside the Balkans – Looking In

Outside the Balkans — Looking In is a podcast by Michelle Glavic, and is available here on Spotify. Episodes take up various aspects of the history of the Balkans from the Second World War to the present. The material is based on her post-graduate research, book reviews and interviews.

Among the topics covered in these episodes are:

-The role of women partisans in the Yugoslav anti-fascist resistance, based on the book Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of WWII Resistance by Jelena Batinic.

-The resurgence of pro-fascist elements in Croatia.

– Discussion on the extermination of Serbs, Roma, Jews and dissidents at the WWII Jasenovic concentration camp in Croatia and a review of the 2021 Serbian historical film Dara of Jasenovac.

– Interview with Gregory Elich, the author of Strange Liberators in which he published his findings following an investigation of the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999.