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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.

24.04.2024
 

Die Anthropozän-Ringvorlesung machte am 24. April 2024 im kärnten.museum Station. Michael Wagreich sprach zum Thema "Anthropozän"

22.04.2024
 

We are concerned about seeing the leading bodies of geosciences negate evidence for the momentous anthropogenic impacts on the Earth System.

17.04.2024
 

17 April 2024, 4:45 pm CEST - Film screening "The Anthropocene: The age of mankind" and panel discussion with VAN founder Eva Horn

14.04.2024
 

The EGU2024 will take place from 14-19 April 2024, including a panel on “The Great EGU Climate Debate: The Anthropocene - Epochalypse Now?”

26.03.2024
 

The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) officially rejects the proposal to formalise the Anthropocene as new geological epoch.

12.03.2024
 

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

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.