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S01E09 Jonathan Chappell explains how the historical reference points for Qing empire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.