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Upcoming Events

TAGUNG "Große Formen im Anthropozän"

5 - 6 December 2024, 10 am - 7 pm CET

The conference “Große Formen im Anthropozän” will focus on the challenges of narrating the Anthropocene in literature and the arts, experimenting with form and genre in response to the “clash of scales” in Anthropocene aesthetics and storytelling. The event will be in German and take place in-person in Vienna.

Location: Schreyvogelsaal (Hofburg, 1010 Wien)

More information on our event page.

14.11.2024
 

Warum Geoengineering das Klima nicht retten kann, erklärt Klimawissenschafter Blaž Gasparini in diesem neuen 'An der Quelle' Podcast (in German)

24.10.2024
 

Interview with VAN founder Eva Horn on cultural perceptions of climate and her new book (published in the recent ECHO Newsletter)

22.10.2024
 

A new study by AWG scientists shows that Earth history and the climate state of our planet have been fundamentally shifted by human impacts.

18.10.2024
 

18 Oct 2024 - Workshop by Andrea Westermann on historical methods for Earth-centered History, open to MA and PhD students (in-person @ Uni Vienna)

10.10.2024
 

10-13 Oct 2024 - Film screenings and discussions on the Anthropocene between natural scientists and filmmakers (Austrian Film Museum & ÖAW)

10.10.2024
 

Whether or not AI can help heal our planet was debated at the international conference "AI and the Planet in Crisis" (University of Vienna)

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.