NCTA Workshop: Bringing East Asian Films into the Classroom

Tue, September 29, 2026
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Zoom (online, register for link)

Explore ways to incorporate East Asian Studies into the curriculum at all levels, from K-12 to college. Join Julia Keblinska, University of Cambridge, who developed film guides for the following films with a different theme for each: 

  • A Taxi Driver (2017): Recording History and the Memory of South Korea’s Contentious 1980s 
  • Ode to My Father (2014): War, history and family in South Korea 
  • The Wandering Earth (2019): Genre & Geopolitics and China’s Place in the World 
  • Your Name (2016): Catastrophe & Connection and Japan’s 3/11 
     

REGISTRATION

Access the film guides and film availability on the EASC film guide webpage

Accessibility Accommodations 

If you have any questions about accessibility or wish to request accommodations, please contact Janet Smith (smith.12674@osu.edu). Typically, a two weeks' notice will allow us to provide access.

Sponsors

Coordinated by the East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University (Ohio State). 

Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh national coordinating site for the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA) Asian Studies Center, University Center for International  Studies and a former U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to the East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University.

 

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