Basic Information
Host School/Department: History Department, Fudan University
Related Discipline(s): Chinese History, World History
Project Name: 2025 International Summer School, History Department, Fudan University
Teaching Language: English
Themes & Topics: Approaches to Historical Studies: Intellectual History, Gender Studies, and Digital Humanities
Dates: June 16-20 & June 23-27, 2025, Shanghai
The international summer school will be held on the Handan campus of Fudan University from June 16th to June 20th and from June 23th to June 27th, 2025. It is hosted by Fudan University, and organized by the History Department. It will provide a world-class learning environment for outstanding students focusing on Chinese History and World History. Three internationally renowned scholars at the forefront of their fields and with extensive teaching experience have been invited to lecture in the summer school. The summer school will select about 200 students from applicants worldwide. The courses will be taught in English on the most up-to-date and popular topics in their respective fields. There will be networking in the summer school, and participants will have a unique opportunity to foster academic connections.
We hope you will join us at the Fudan International Summer School of History this year. Spend your summer here on learning about the cutting edge of Chinese History and World History, interacting with world-renowned researchers, and making friends who can be lifelong colleagues and mentors.
Scheduled Courses & Modules
| Date | Courses & Modules | Instructor |
| June 16-20 Morning | Introduction to the History of Western Political Thought: Liberalism and Conservatism | Alan Kahan |
| June 23-27 Morning | The Premodern in the Modern: Historicizing Gender and Sexuality | Ying ZHANG |
June 23-27 Afternoon
| Data-Informed Methods in Slavery Studies | Walter Hawthorne |
Instructors and Keynote Speakers
Alan Kahan is a professor of British Civilization at the Université de Paris-Saclay. He received his PhD at the University of Chicago. He is the author of multiple books, including Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville; Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: the Political Culture of Limited Suffrage; Mind vs. Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism; and Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion. He is currently working on Liberalism – An Incomplete History, which will be published by Princeton University Press. Kahan has been living in France since 2007.
Professor Ying ZHANG is a historian at Leiden University. She specializes in late medieval and early modern China (14-18th c.) and is mostly interested in exploring the history of Chinese political institutions, literati culture, and gender and family. Her current research is focused on examining the intersection of bureaucracy, law, and society in the Ming dynasty.
Walter Hawthorne is a professor of African and Digital History, director of Enslaved.org, and an editor of the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation. His research focuses on the history of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic trade in enslaved people of African descent. His most recent book, From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830, examines the slave trade from Africa to Amazonia, Brazil. His digital project, Enslaved.org, accounts for the lives of named enslaved individuals of African descent in the Atlantic world, revealing their stories to scholars, educators, and genealogists.
Registration for the International Summer School
1. Qualifications:
Applicants need to be undergraduates (junior or senior), graduate students, or postdoctoral fellows in history-related fields from recognized institutions all over the world.
2. Tuitions & Fees:
The summer school does not charge any tuition or fees. Transport and accommodation are not covered.
3. Application materials:
● Passport Photocopy (Personal Information Page)
● Personal Photo
● Personal Statement (to explain your interest in a particular course)
● CV
● Proof of proficiency in English (scores of TOEFL, GRE, IELTS, or CET 4/CET 6) for applicants from non-English speaking institutions
4. How to apply:
Applicants have the flexibility to choose from the following course units:
(1) Introduction to the History of Western Political Thought: Liberalism and Conservatism
(2) The Premodern in the Modern: Historicizing Gender and Sexuality
(3) Data-Informed Methods in Slavery Studies
Fudan University will issue a Certificate of Study for students who have completed their selected courses.
Oversea applicants: Please sign up and log in at https://istudent.fudan.edu.cn/apply
1. Register a new account. The applicant will receive an email of activation. Please use the supported browsers to apply.
2. After the new account is activated, please log in, and input the correct program code.
3. Program Code Dictionary:
Undergraduate Student: 286790
Graduate Student、Postdoctoral Fellow: 586473
We will follow up by mail with admitted international students about their selected courses.
Deadline: May 25, 2025 Beijing time.
Domestic applicants：Please login in at http://register.fudan.edu.cn/（Google chrome is recommended）
Deadline: May 25, 2025 Beijing time.
5. Contact Information:
Mrs. LIN Wen
Phone: +86-21-65642713
E-mail: historyfa@fudan.edu.cn
Website: https://iss-history.fudan.edu.cn/
