World History Students Win Prizes at 2020 First-Class Discipline Construction Symposium

The world history majors from NJU’s School of History won a number of prizes at the "2020 Zhengzhou University World History First-Class Discipline Construction Symposium," an event the School of History, Zhengzhou University, hosted from November 27 to 29, 2020.  

The symposium was attended by over 90 specialists, scholars and undergraduate students from Nanjing University, Zhengzhou University, Renmin University of China, Nankai University, Wuhan University, Shandong University, Yunnan University, Northwest University, Liaoning University, Capital Normal University, Henan University, Shandong Normal University, Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Anhui Normal University, Yanshan University, Henan Normal University, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang Normal University and so on.  

The symposium was conducted both on-site and online.  

Professor Wang Tao, a vice dean of the School of History of Nanjing University, attended the meeting and had lively exchange with other specialists and scholars.  

The symposium had two themes. The first was the construction of world history as a first-class discipline, with three sub-topics: the construction of world history discipline, the construction of world history courses, and the ideological and political education in the world history courses.

The second theme was the academic forum for world history undergraduates.  

The forum received 42 papers recommended by their respective universities, and the best ones of them were awarded 2 special prizes, 5 first prizes, 10 second prizes, and several outstanding awards.  

Three 2017 undergraduate history majors from NJY’s School of History won the prizes. Peng Yunzhu won the first prize with her paper “‘Collaborators with the enemy’ among Jews in the Nazi Reign” (supervisor: Wang Tao). Wang Zhao won the outstanding award with his paper “Voice of the subjects: Petitions and British society in the 17th century” (Supervisor: Chen Rihua), and Sun Xuyang also won the outstanding award with the paper “Evolution of the British nationality system and the decline of the empire” (Supervisor: Chen Rihua).

The fact that our students successfully participated in this conference and achieved good results will help strengthen our school’s undergraduate teaching in world history, promote the cultivation of top-notch students, and improve students’ academic research capabilities.