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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.

07.09.2022
 

7-9 Sept 2022 - This year's symposium 'Facing the biodiversity crisis' will put research in and about protected areas in the spotlight.

30.08.2022
 

Is the Arctic pushed towards a "point of no return"? How severe climatic changes affect Arctic ecosystems and global warming (in German)

15.08.2022
 

In their recent publication, Martin J. Head et al. argue for the definition of the Anthropocene as an epoch/series rather than a 'geological event'

27.07.2022
 

Podcast: Climate scientist Aiko Voigt about his research on clouds, climate dynamics and climate change as "unintentional experiment" (in German)

30.06.2022
 

March - June 2022: Colloquium organised by the Department of European Ethnology on cultural aspects of weather and meteorology (in English and German)

16.06.2022
 

16-18 June 2022 - How can people once again understand and experience themselves as one with nature to cope with new realities?

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.