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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)

27.07.2022
 

Podcast: Climate scientist Aiko Voigt about his research on clouds, climate dynamics and climate change as "unintentional experiment" (in German)

30.06.2022
 

March - June 2022: Colloquium organised by the Department of European Ethnology on cultural aspects of weather and meteorology (in English and German)

16.06.2022
 

16-18 June 2022 - How can people once again understand and experience themselves as one with nature to cope with new realities?

15.06.2022
 

15 June 2022, 5-6:30 pm CEST - The monthly MARIPOLDATA Ocean Seminar Series offer a virtual space to learn about ocean governance issues.

15.06.2022
 

TRANSITIONS TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY

Next talk: 15 June 2022, 5-6:30 pm CEST - Janina Kehr "Biomedicine, Health, and the Environment"

14.06.2022
 

14-15 June 2022: Workshop organized by the ERC Advanced Grant project InfraNorth. Hosted by Luleå University of Technology & Online (via Zoom)

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.