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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)

22.01.2025
 

22 Jan 2025 - Upcoming seminar exploring the fraught history of extraction ('Anthropocene Histories' series, organised by UCL Anthropocene)

18.01.2025
 

New documentary on the AWG's global search for the Golden Spike of the Anthropocene, by Cédric Defert and Cécile Dumas (Look at Sciences, ARTE France)

13.01.2025
 

The oceans are hotter than ever recorded by humans, with the ocean surrounding the Antarctic continent experiencing one of the fastest warming rates.

07.01.2025
 

Public Lectures Series hosted by the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, open to students and the general public (recordings of past events available)

10.12.2024
 

The newly founded platform "Biodiversity Austria - International" strengthens national biodiversity research and its connection with the IBPES

14.11.2024
 

Warum Geoengineering das Klima nicht retten kann, erklärt Klimawissenschafter Blaž Gasparini in diesem neuen 'An der Quelle' Podcast (in German)

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.