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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.

12.05.2022
 

Special publication by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science with contributions by Eva Horn & Michael Wagreich and other VAN members.

10.05.2022
 

10 May 2022, 7 pm CEST - Welche Rolle spielt die Wissenschaft bei Entscheidungen? Podiumsdiskussion veranstaltet vom Forschungsnetzwerk Umwelt (ERN)

26.04.2022
 

We are delighted to announce that VAN member Ulrike Felt has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant on the topic of "Innovation Residues"

07.04.2022
 

The IPCC warns against the severe consequences of climate change. Yet governments and decision makers are slow to respond.

(Full article in German)

22.03.2022
 

22 March 2022, 1 pm CET - Talk by Peter Schweitzer (VAN & Infranorth) Part of the University of Helsinki's "Down By The Water" seminar series.

10.03.2022
 

The message of the newest IPCC climate report is clear: Climate change affects the planet and our lives in severe ways. But how to adapt?

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.