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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)

14.12.2022
 

What is the Anthropocene made of? Recordings of scientific and artistic exlorations presented at 'Unearhing the Present' (May 2022, hosted by the HKW)

23.11.2022
 

Glaciers and ice-sheets worldwide are shrinking. Glacial geologist Bethan Davies is exploring their geological past to predict their future.

07.11.2022
 

COP27 - If global warming continues, the catastrophic climate events we are seeing today might soon become the norm (article in German)

25.10.2022
 

Should the Anthropocene be formalised as a new epoch - marking the end of the Holocene - or rather be considered as a geological event?

18.10.2022
 

18 Oct 2022, 7 pm CEST - Podiumsdiskussion: Welche Werte sollen und können eine ambitionierte Umweltpolitik anleiten?

09.10.2022
 

We are deeply saddened by the death of Bruno Latour whose work contributed most significantly to the study of science and the Anthropocene.

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.