15past15 podcast series

S03E07 Welche Geschichten des Historischen Seminars sind noch zu erzählen? Viele! Jose Cáceres Mardones und Maryam Joseph stellen kurz einige der Geschichten vor, die sie in den Folgen nicht erzählen konnten.

S03E07 Welche Geschichten des Historischen Seminars sind noch zu erzählen? Viele! Jose Cáceres Mardones und Maryam Joseph stellen kurz einige der Geschichten vor, die sie in den Folgen nicht erzählen konnten.

S03E06 Es gab einmal das Lizentiat. Von oben nach unten wurde aber ein neues System vorangetrieben: Bologna. Die Reform wandelte sich mehrmals um. Es änderte Strukturen und Denkweisen - brachte aber auch neues Leben am Historischen Seminar. Mit den Gästen Heinrich Christ, Christian Marek, Carlo Moos, Monika Dommann, Francesco Falone und Barbara Holler.

S03E06 Es gab einmal das Lizentiat. Von oben nach unten wurde aber ein neues System vorangetrieben: Bologna. Die Reform wandelte sich mehrmals um. Es änderte Strukturen und Denkweisen - brachte aber auch neues Leben am Historischen Seminar. Mit den Gästen Heinrich Christ, Christian Marek, Carlo Moos, Monika Dommann, Francesco Falone und Barbara Holler.

S03E05 Das Historische Seminar ist Erbe des Historismus. Leopold von Ranke war der Lehrer des Gründers vom Historischen Seminar: Max Büdinger. Somit wurde nicht nur die Wissenschaftlichkeit der neuen Disziplin gelehrt, sondern eben auch deren Vermännlichung fortgesetzt. Mit Gast Falko Schnicke.

S03E05 Das Historische Seminar ist Erbe des Historismus. Leopold von Ranke war der Lehrer des Gründers vom Historischen Seminar: Max Büdinger. Somit wurde nicht nur die Wissenschaftlichkeit der neuen Disziplin gelehrt, sondern eben auch deren Vermännlichung fortgesetzt. Mit Gast Falko Schnicke. 

S03E04 Erst 2003 wurden die ersten Professorinnen ans Historische Seminar berufen. Der Kampf für Gleichberechtigung wurde auf allen Ebenen geführt: Studentinnen, Dozentinnen und nun Professorinnen setzten sich kontinuierlich dafür ein. Mit Gästen Margrit Steinhauser, Hans-Jürg Fehr, Monika Dommann und Falko Schnicke.

S03E04 Erst 2003 wurden die ersten Professorinnen ans Historische Seminar berufen. Der Kampf für Gleichberechtigung wurde auf allen Ebenen geführt: Studentinnen, Dozentinnen und nun Professorinnen setzten sich kontinuierlich dafür ein. Mit Gästen Margrit Steinhauser, Hans-Jürg Fehr und Monika Dommann.

S03E03 Globalgeschichte ist heutzutage in aller Munde. Dafür mussten die Studierende aber auch kämpfen. Die Rolle der “Dritten Welt” am Historischen Seminar wurde vor allem im Hinblick auf eine neue Berufung in den 80er-Jahren kräftig diskutiert. Mit Gästen Martin Dusinberre, Heinrich Christ, Margrit Steinhauser.

S03E03 Globalgeschichte ist heutzutage in aller Munde. Dafür mussten die Studierende aber auch kämpfen. Die Rolle der “Dritten Welt” am Historischen Seminar wurde vor allem im Hinblick auf eine neue Berufung in den 80er-Jahren kräftig diskutiert. Mit Gästen Martin Dusinberre, Heinrich Christ, Margrit Steinhauser.

S03E02 Unmittelbar nach den 68er-Protesten gab es eine andere Art Revolution am Historischen Seminar: Die Studierenden durften nach einem langen Kampf endlich in der Seminarkonferenz beisitzen - nur eine der Debatten zwischen Studierenden und Professoren. Mit Gästen Hans-Jürg Fehr, Jakob Tanner, Margrit Steinhauser und Carsten Goehrke.

S03E02 Unmittelbar nach den 68er-Protesten gab es eine andere Art Revolution am Historischen Seminar: Die Studierende durften in der Seminarkonferenz beisitzen - nur eine der Debatten zwischen Studierenden und Professoren. Mit Gästen Hans-Jürg Fehr, Jakob Tanner, Margrit Steinhauser und Carsten Goehrke.

S03E01 Welche Geschichten über das Historische Seminar befinden sich in den Archiven? Viele! Mitbestimmung, Globalgeschichte, Gleichberechtigung, Historismus und Bologna sind nur einige davon. Maryam Joseph und Jose Cáceres Mardones stellen die neue Staffel vor.

S03E01 Welche Geschichten über das Historische Seminar befinden sich in den Archiven? Viele! Mitbestimmung, Globalgeschichte, Gleichberechtigung, Historismus und Bologna sind nur einige zu erwähnen. Maryam Joseph und Jose Cáceres Mardones stellen die neue Staffel vor.

S02E15 Matthieu Leimgruber discusses his public report (released in November 2020) on the controversial career of Zurich arms manufacturer and art collector Emil Bührle (1890-1956). Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre.

S02E14 Mary O’Sullivan examines the contestations that go into ‘learning from the past’—in particular, from the Great Depression—and highlights the need for economists and historians to deconstruct the notion of ‘lessons’ from that past. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Simon Teuscher; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E13 Sheldon Garon discusses how the habit of saving had to be learned in late-nineteenth century Japan as elsewhere in the world, thus debunking a wider narrative of Asian ‘culture’ being central to an individual’s relationship to money. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E12 Beshara Doumani explains what strategies had to be considered in planning for property devolution after death through the waqf in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Ottoman Syria—and the wider significance of this story for understanding the role of the family in Middle Eastern history. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E11 Joel Kaye shows how medieval scholars engaged with the so-called ‘commercial revolution’ of Europe’s late Middle Ages in order to conceptualize the ‘market’ in new ways and thereby develop a new model of equilibrium in economics, politics and science. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E10 Nadin Hée takes the example of tuna fishing as a departure point both for considering Japan’s engagement with transpacific markets and also as a way for understanding the significance of the ‘pelagic’ empire for the wider history of resource extraction. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E09 Antoine Acker examines the transformation of Brazilian society, and of debates about national wealth and Brazil’s place in the industrialized world, following the discovery of oil in the 1930s. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E08 Iris Borowy presciently argues that health is the key prerequisite for global wealth creation—although, paradoxically, historical data show that during periods of economic expansion, people’s health tends to suffer. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E07 Eva Brugger reconstructs the importance of the beaver fur trade to the seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Amsterdam as a case study for how early modern empires projected a vision of future wealth for potential settlers and investors. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E06 Giorgio Riello examines how the early modern cotton industry offers an entry point into debates over the ‘great divergence’ in wealth between Europe and Asia, including the need for scholars to rethink meanings of ‘luxury’ in global history. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E05 Regina Grafe argues that historians fundamentally misunderstand the early modern Spanish empire when they suggest that it was characterised by the extraction and transfer of silver from Latin America to the European metropole. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E04 Jeremy Davies explains why an understanding of the Anthropocene should be central to an understanding of wealth inequalities in history—and why alternative terms, such as the Capitalocene, do not advance the debate. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E03 Corinna Unger offers a history of development over the twentieth century, considering the ways in which development assistance tries to address problems that emerged from colonialism and from wealth inequalities more generally. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E02 Simon Teuscher explores the thematic relevance of ‘wealth’ as a topic of study for historians, focusing in particular on some of the surprising continuities between wealth management in the medieval and modern worlds. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E01 Martin Dusinberre offers an overview of season 2 of 15past15, a season which was planned and recorded in very different circumstances to those of the global Covid-19 crisis. What might the theme of wealth and the writing of history bring to our current understandings of a transformed world?

S01E15 Bettina Zorn explains how objects of entangled histories illustrate Chinese and Japanese pasts in the East Asia collection of the Weltmuseum Wien. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner.

S01E14 Martin Dusinberre examines both the importance of the Pacific Ocean in modern Japanese history and the challenges that come from trying to write the "Pacific Age". Interviewed by Joachim Kurtz and Birgit Tremml Werner.

S01E13 Barbara Mittler introduces the Chinese scholar Hu Shi's conception of a Chinese renaissance in the early twentieth century and its implications for the writing of global history. Interviewed by Joachim Kurtz and Birgit Tremml Werner.

S01E12 Pablo Blitstein discusses the methodological challenges that arise from studying "the Renaissance" in world history. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml Werner and Martin Dusinberre.

S01E11 Lorenzo Andolfatto shows how societal transformations in late-nineteenth century China were reflected in the utopian popular literature. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml Werner.

S01E10 Joan Judge traces the shifting repertoire of exemplary models for women as Qing China struggled with national reform and historical time on the eve of the 1911 Revolution. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre.

S01E09 Jonathan Chappell explains how the historical reference points for Qing empire officials changed across the nineteenth century, especially with regard to the management of China's borderlands. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre.

S01E08 Henrietta Harrison examines how Lord Macartney's mission to Qing China in 1793 has been archivally framed in the West and in China, leading to the idea that Chinese international relations particularly prioritised ritual and tribute.

S01E07 Birgit Tremml Werner introduces Yamada Nagamasa (1590-1630), whom some scholars called the "Columbus of Japan" in the 1940s-a label, she argues, which tells us as much about twentieth-century as seventeenth-century history. Interviewed by Joachim Kurtz and Martin Dusinberre.

S01E06 Lisa Yoshikawa illustrates how academic historians in modern Japan used the professionalisation of studying and writing about the past to establish politically opportune narratives for a modern imperial state. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml Werner and Martin Dusinberre.

S01E05 Stefan Tanaka suggests that Japanese intellectuals "discovered" Japan's past in the mid-nineteenth century, both by reconsidering China's place in the world and by thinking about time in new ways. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml Werner.

S01E04 David Mervart traces the entanglements of foreign trade and book collecting in so-called "closed Japan", and the ways that Japanese translators came to conceive of-and embody-the republic of letters. Interview: Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml Werner

S01E03 Leigh Jenco considers what debates about the history of Taiwan in seventeenth-century China bring to our theoretical understanding of imperialism. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml Werner.

S01E02 Joachim Kurtz discusses the changing ways in which Confucius has been understood in the last five hundred years—from “philosopher” to “Chinese” sage whose teachings are incompatible with Western modernity. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre.

S01E01 15past15 is a new podcast which discusses how the past is made, and by whom. Its first season focuses on history and history-writing in East Asia, from the sixteenth century to today. Interviewees debate Confucius’s comeback, the Chinese Renaissance, the Eurasian Republic of Letters, the Columbus of Japan, the methodologies and writing of global history, and much more—all in a fifteen-minute format (more or less). Interviews will be released weekly.