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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)

27.04.2025
 

27 April 2025 - Open Event am Geozentrum der Universität Wien für Familien, Schüler*innen, Lehrer*innen und zukünftige Studierende

11.03.2025
 

11 March 2025, 5-7 pm CET - "Introduction to the Anthropocene" with Jan Zalasiewicz, Eva Horn, Michael Wagreich and Sabine Seidler

20.02.2025
 

New monthly seminar series on ocean governance, with a focus on recent developments in data, science, and technology, hosted by TwinPolitics.

07.02.2025
 

7-8 Feb 2025 - Conference on European Perspectives on Wilderness, Rewilding and Biodiversity Conservation (organised by CETEP)

06.02.2025
 

A new study by climate scientists from the University of Vienna investigates the effect of traffic-related microplastics on cloud formation.

29.01.2025
 

Major EU industry sectors rely substantially on uncertain carbon removal technologies instead of phasing out fossil fuels (more on ECH website)

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.