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Upcoming Events

Blurry Bodies – Blurry Selves: Corporeality in the Anthropocene

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

The interdisciplinary workshop will explore the interplay between bodies, landscapes, and large-scale earthly transformations in literature, culture, and theory. In this way, we seek to examine the contemporary clash of scales as an ongoing negotiation of blurry bodies continuously changing into novel, yet to be theorized forms.

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

More information on our event page.

08.03.2023
 

8 March 2023, 4 - 6 pm CET - Online seminar with members of the AWG | Part of the IHR Partnership Seminar Series "Anthropocene Histories"

07.03.2023
 

Registration open for the third Anthropocene lecture series in cooperation with Forum Anthropozän

Starts on 7 March 2023 at 5 pm CET (via Zoom)

01.03.2023
 

Humans have relatively recently appeared on this planet – yet, in no time, we have developed to unsettle the balance of Earth’s regulatory system.

21.02.2023
 

21 Feb 2023, 11 am CET - Opening keynote by Peter Schweitzer (INFRANORTH) at the Science Symposium of the ASSW 2023 in Vienna.

16.02.2023
 

The research project "Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World" explores changing perceptions of air and air pollution.

01.02.2023
 

The AWG has evaluated 12 candidate sites for an Anthropocene GSSP. All sites are marked by anthropogenic and geochemical changes.

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.