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Event poster for the Anthropocene online lecture series 2025

Upcoming Events

Online Lecture Series "The Anthropocene" 2025

Tuesdays, 5:00-7:00 pm (CET & CEST), starts on 11 March 2025

An open online lecture series with international speakers from the sciences, social sciences and humanities who will examine the challenges and controversies of the Anthropocene from different perspectives.

The lecture series is a cooperation of VAN, the Department of Geology and the IGCP 732 project of the University of Vienna, together with the Forum Anthropozän.

Online via Zoom (free attendance, register here)

20.06.2025
 

20 and 21 June 2025 - Site-specific performance by artist Katrin Hornek and choreographer Karin Pauer at Belvedere 21 (Vienna)

18.06.2025
 

18 June 2025 - The conference brings together researchers, practitioners and creative thinkers from across many fields (a free online 1-day event)

12.06.2025
 

12-14 June 2025 - The 8th Forum Anthropozän looks at future possibilities and risks of AI, asking how innovation can promote sustainable development?

05.06.2025
 

Internationally renowned UniVie researchers gathered at the "Building Futures" event at EXPO 2025 in Osaka, including VAN founder Eva Horn

04.06.2025
 

4 June 2025, 5:15 pm CEST - Public lecture with Pamela Smith, organised by the ÖAW in cooperation with SCARCE and HUE Project (ERC)

21.05.2025
 

21 May 2025, 4-6 pm CEST - UCL Anthropocene Seminar with Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind (online via Zoom)

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.