The East Asian Studies Center (EASC) and Columbus State Community College (CSCC)’s partnership year continued despite the challenges with a remote delivery of the Humanities Symposium, When East Meets West: “Pandemics: Past, Present, and Future – Coronavirus in Historical Context” on March 25, 2021.  The symposium was organized with Prof. Jennifer Nardone, Columbus State Community College and moderated by Prof. Dea Boster, Columbus State Community College. Looking at the topic from the East perspective was Prof. Amy Welling Gregg, Dept. of Comparative Studies, History, The Ohio State University - Newark Campus with talk, “East Asia, Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases from Dengue to COVID-19” while Prof. Jim Harris, Dept. of History, The Ohio State University, gave the West perspective in his talk, "From 1918 to COVID‐19: Pandemics in Modern American History."

To complement the symposium and build on the partnership from 2014-2020 which resulted in the development of 16 new video modules, two additional video modules were developed in 2021.  The latest modules, "Diseases and Epidemics in Pre-Modern China and Japan" and "Inoculating Modernity: Disease and Vaccination in Early Modern Japanese History," were developed by Ryan Schultz, a former lecturer in OSU's Department of History in partnership with Prof. Jennifer Nardone of CSCC's Humanities Department, with support from EASC's Title VI National Resource Center grant. The modules are created for use in CSCC's World History course which is offered on both the CSCC campus and through their College Credit Plus program which makes college-level classes available in regional high schools. The two new modules and the 16 previously-created modules are also available for classroom use worldwide on EASC's YouTube channel.