{"id":36168,"date":"2017-12-20T09:41:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T14:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=36168"},"modified":"2017-12-20T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T18:11:32","slug":"vaca-professor-appears-serbian-news-talk-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/vaca-professor-appears-serbian-news-talk-show\/","title":{"rendered":"VACA professor appears on Serbian news talk show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Mennonite University professor Jerry Holsopple made seven appearances, including one on a television talk show, when he traveled to Serbia earlier this month to be a featured international lecturer at the Conference of Creative Industries in Nis, Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>The five-day conference was designed to help young innovators from creative industries realize their ideas for improving their cities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=holsoppj\">Holsopple<\/a> was the multimedia lecturer in a lineup representing the fields of design, management, advertising, architecture and information technology.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\">View Jerry Holsopple&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oSh3Vf-iv9I\">ZonaTV appearance<\/a>.<\/aside>\n<p>The invitation was the result of connections made through former faculty member and Serbian filmmaker Zeljko Mirkovic. The trip was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>At EMU, Holsopple teaches undergraduate courses in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/vaca\/\">videography and digital media<\/a>. He has led also courses for international peacebuilders in social media and digital media for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/\">Summer Peacebuilding Institute<\/a> at EMU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/\">Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36169\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/12\/vaca-professor-appears-serbian-news-talk-show\/jerry-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36169\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36169\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Jerry-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Jerry-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Jerry-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Jerry-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Jerry-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lecturing at the conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to a masterclass for all conference attendees, Holsopple presented a three-hour workshop about stories, myths and symbols on the \u201ccore principles of narrative, symbolic structures and how stories define identity and culture.\u201d In another workshop he evaluated, compared and was inspired by sixteen multi-media campaigns and projects advocating for social change, to encourage students\u2019 own ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Holsopple also presented a workshop on photography as a tool for social analysis to a group of 50-60 students at University Metropolitan and about multimedia in everyday life at the American Corner.<\/p>\n<p>Between presentations, Holsopple appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oSh3Vf-iv9I\">Zona TV&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a>talk show, where he was asked if he could learn from the people of Serbia, a small country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already have,\u201d he replied, noting that the people he had met were \u201cvery friendly and gregarious,\u201d and that students had invited him to eat with them in a restaurant and had answered his questions about city art. \u201cThere is a lot of deep history here, and also a culture that can be very welcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His lectures, he told the host, were about using multimedia to tell stories with multiple points of view to \u201creveal the dreams, hopes and possibilities of a place.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/12\/vaca-professor-appears-serbian-news-talk-show\/jerry-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36174 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Jerry-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Jerry-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Jerry-4-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Jerry-4-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/12\/Jerry-4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holsopple offered the show host his take on historical perspective: \u201cYou build the new on understanding who you were. I\u2019m always about finding the strengths in your own history, that then you say, \u2018Because we are this kind of people, we are able to face the future and create a new kind of culture, because we know who we are,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not avoiding our history, but saying, \u2018What in our history helps us move beyond our history?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holsopple was a Fulbright scholar in Lithuania and has led several undergraduate <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crosscultural\/category\/lithuania-2016\/\">cross-cultural trips<\/a> to the region. A 2013 trip resulted in the photography exhibit and book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.com\/b\/7111537-traces-of-a-social-movement\">Traces of a Social Movement: The Baltic Way<\/a>,\u201d about people who participated in a 630km-long human chain, formed in August 1989 across Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more about Jerry Holsopple&#8217;s artistic works on sexual abuse within the church <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/02\/with-7x7-laments-artist-explores-revelations-of-sexual-abuse-within-the-church-evokes-discord-with-rays-of-hope\/\">here<\/a> and on icons <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2010\/12\/2365\/\">here<\/a>. He also blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/thirdway.com\/writtenby\/jerry-l-holsopple\/\">Third Way<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crosscultural\/category\/lithuania-2016\/\">students<\/a> who traveled with Holsopple to Lithuania in 2016. Holsopple will lead an EMU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/alumni\/involved\/cross-cultural-tours\">Alumni and Friends cross-cultural tour<\/a> to Lithuania in the summer of 2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Mennonite University professor Jerry Holsopple made seven appearances, including one on a television talk show, when he traveled to Serbia earlier this month to be a featured international lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/vaca-professor-appears-serbian-news-talk-show\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about VACA professor appears on Serbian news talk show<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7931,12503,17562,5593,12499,12507],"tags":[6012],"feature":[17427,17426,17241,17422],"class_list":["post-36168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-cjp","category-digest","category-intercultural","category-spi","category-vaca","tag-jerry-holsopple","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature","feature-news-landing-page-main-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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