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Upcoming Events

Blurry Bodies – Blurry Selves: Corporeality in the Anthropocene

WORKSHOP - 5 June 2024, 10 am - 7 pm CEST

The workshop will explore the interplay between blurry bodies, landscapes, and large-scale earthly transformations in contemporary literature, culture, and theory. In this way, we seek to examine the contemporary clash of scales as a continuous and interdisciplinary negotiation of blurry bodies changed to other, yet to be theorized forms in the Anthropocene.

Hybrid event: in-person at the University of Vienna & online via Zoom

More information on our event page.

25.10.2022
 

Should the Anthropocene be formalised as a new epoch - marking the end of the Holocene - or rather be considered as a geological event?

18.10.2022
 

18 Oct 2022, 7 pm CEST - Podiumsdiskussion: Welche Werte sollen und können eine ambitionierte Umweltpolitik anleiten?

09.10.2022
 

We are deeply saddened by the death of Bruno Latour whose work contributed most significantly to the study of science and the Anthropocene.

06.10.2022
 

Ecosystem researchers investigate how microorganisms process nitrogen in thawing permafrost - with effects that exacerbate climate change.

27.09.2022
 

Lecture series at the University of Vienna on climate-related concepts and challenges, organised each winter term (WS 2021 recordings available)

20.09.2022
 

20 Sept 2022, 6-8 pm CEST - Film screening and panel discussion on ocean digitalisation (in-person event in German & French)

Featured Videos


 "Sympoiesis as Natural Technicity: The Allegory of the Lichen"

Keynote by Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University)

25 January 2024 - Presented at our workshop "Making Kin"

Hosted by the Vienna Anthropocene Network (FWF-Projekt „Landschaft, Leben, Form. Die Poetik des Anthropozäns“)

 "Making Kin with Microbes? The Microbiome in the Posthuman Novel (Elisabeth Klar's 'Es gibt uns')"

Talk by Nicole Sütterlin (Harvard University)

25 January 2024 - Presented at our workshop "Making Kin"

Hosted by the Vienna Anthropocene Network

 Records of Loss

Videofilm by Axel Braun

Created on behalf of the Vienna Anthropocene Network and shown at the panel discussion "Vanishing Ice" in January 2020.

The film traces the history of Austria's largest glacier, Pasterze, contraposing past and present images to record the loss of glacial landscapes over time.