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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)

22.03.2023
 

Klimarechnungshof is an Austrian initiative that calls for effective actions against climate change. Assembly on 24 April 2023, registration open.

14.03.2023
 

What is the environmental impact of modern medicine? How does the excessive production and use of medication affect planetary health? (in German)

13.03.2023
 

This year's Dies Academicus will be celebrated on 13 March 2023, with a panel discussion on "Planetary Health – Climate, Environment, Sustainability"

08.03.2023
 

8 March 2023, 4 - 6 pm CET - Online seminar with members of the AWG | Part of the IHR Partnership Seminar Series "Anthropocene Histories"

07.03.2023
 

Registration open for the third Anthropocene lecture series in cooperation with Forum Anthropozän

Starts on 7 March 2023 at 5 pm CET (via Zoom)

01.03.2023
 

Humans have relatively recently appeared on this planet – yet, in no time, we have developed to unsettle the balance of Earth’s regulatory system.

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.