“Is Netflix Riding the Korean Wave or Vice Versa? II: Shifting Local and Global Relations,” will be held on 18-19 July 2025 at Yonsei University’s Humanities Centennial Hall (Widang). Miseong Woo (Yonsei University), Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University), Seok-Kyeong Hong (Seoul National University), and Sangjoon Lee (City University of Hong Kong) are co-organizing this exciting academic event.
It will take place at Yonsei University this time, following previous conferences at Seoul National University in 2022 and City University of Hong Kong in 2024.

Asian cinema studies has rapidly expanded under the impact of globalization, compounded by the resurgence of varied nationalisms, resistance movements, and the affordances of digital media. Differentiated experiences of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have further heightened interest in local politics and cultural activism, newer media and the
digital everyday, and a renewed geopolitical divide between East and West and between North and South. A new “companion” to Asian cinemas therefore feels necessary and urgent in these times. This collaborative volume takes up emerging questions in the field to weave a model for a “trans-Asian” film studies that is cognizant of the durability of the nation state as well as alternative models of situated multiscalar ideas of place and belonging.

“New Directions in Trans-Asian Cinema and Media Studies” symposium is organized by the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in partnership with the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Asian Film & Media Initiative (AFMI), and Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab). This symposium is a subsequent event for the publication of The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas, a massive volume of Asian cinema studies, which was edited by Zhang Zhen, Sangjoon Lee, Intan Paramaditha, and Debashree Mukherjee.