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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)

19.06.2023
 

19 June 2023, 5 pm CEST - "Planet and Humans: Can we still be saved?"

Panel discussion with Ulrike Felt and Thilo Hofmann (in German)

15.06.2023
 

15-17 June 2023 - The Forum Anthropocene takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question how innovation can promote sustainable development.

15.06.2023
 

15-16 June 2023 - International workshop, organised by Anna Echterhölter and Marco Vianna Franco

In cooperation with IHS Vienna

02.06.2023
 

Podcast with Alice Vadrot (Political Sciences) and Nils Güttler (History of Science) - "Das Klima zwischen Politik und Wissenschaft" (in German)

30.05.2023
 

30 May 2023, 7 pm CEST - Podiumsdiskussion: Woraus setzt sich eine gesunde Ernährung zusammen? Wie können wir Ressourcen effizienter nutzen?

23.05.2023
 

Climate physicist Blaž Gasparini explains recent attempts to counteract global warming by giving the planet "sun protection" (Rudolphina)

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.