Recently, Chen Hao, Associate Professor in the Department of History at the School of Humanities, has been awarded the "2023 German Prize for Humanities." Chen Hao was nominated and awarded for his doctoral thesis submitted to the History Department of the Free University of Berlin in 2016, titled "A History of the Second Türk Empire (ca. 682-745)." The thesis was published by Brill, a Dutch publisher, in 2021, and received the Second Prize in the 16th Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Awards.

On November 17th, Chen Hao was invited to the Göttingen Academy of Sciences to deliver a keynote speech in German on the topic "Where Should Oriental Studies Go?" He called for enhanced academic exchange and collaboration between China and Germany, especially in traditional fields of Oriental studies such as Sinology and Turkology. On November 18th, Chen Hao was invited to attend the award ceremony held at the auditorium of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Professor Daniel Göske, President of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, recited the award citation and presented the certificate.

On November 20th, at the invitation of Dominic Sachsenmaier, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Göttingen, Chen Hao delivered a special lecture on "The Rise of Global History in China" for faculty and students of the Chinese Studies Department.

The " Prize for Humanities " (Preis für Geisteswissenschaften) is organized by the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences (Göttingen, Germany). Each year, one doctoral thesis in the field of humanities is selected from German submissions to recognize the outstanding contributions of the candidate, either in terms of methodological or substantive progress. Since its establishment in 2007, the award has been given to 12 recipients. Chen Hao, a tenured associate professor in the History Department of the Faculty of Humanities, is the first Chinese scholar to receive this award.