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Event poster for the lecture series Anthropocene 2024

Upcoming Events

Online Lecture Series "Welcome to the Anthropocene" 2024

Tuesdays, 5:00-7:00 pm (CET & CEST), starts on 12 March 2024

In the summer term 2024, we will again be hosting an interdisciplinary lecture series on the Anthropocene. 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)

12.03.2024
 

On 12 March 2024, the University of Vienna celebrates its 659th anniversary - upholding traditions while promoting innovation in science and beyond.

28.02.2024
 

Life thrives in the most extreme environments: from the deep sea to alkaline salt lakes. What can we learn from their inhabitants?

23.02.2024
 

New research findings on how microbial activity in the soil influences the global carbon cycle and possible feedback mechanisms on the climate.

22.02.2024
 

To monitor water quality, the "SWAIN" project is taking an innovative approach using artificial intelligence that detects harmful chemcials.

05.02.2024
 

Radio Ö1 interview with Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna) on the Anthropocene and the new epoch in history it signifies (in German)

15.01.2024
 

15 Jan 2024, 6 pm CET - Semester Question Panel Discussion with a keynote by Prof Mark Miodownik (UCL) on "The Materials of the Future"

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.