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Upcoming Events

TAGUNG "Große Formen im Anthropozän"

5 - 6 December 2024, 10 am - 7 pm CET

The conference “Große Formen im Anthropozän” will focus on the challenges of narrating the Anthropocene in literature and the arts, experimenting with form and genre in response to the “clash of scales” in Anthropocene aesthetics and storytelling. The event will be in German and take place in-person in Vienna.

Location: Schreyvogelsaal (Hofburg, 1010 Wien)

More information on our event page.

01.07.2021
 

InfraNorth was officially launched with a presentation by PI Prof Peter Schweitzer and introductions of team members, affiliates and partners.

15.06.2021
 

Blog entry on the Climate Walk project that explores the complex entanglement of humans and the planet in the Anthropocene (in German)

11.06.2021
 

How do we humans impact the planet? Join the discussion live on Monday, 14 June 2021 at 6pm CEST, keynote by Achim Steiner (UNDP)

09.06.2021
 

Interview with VAN member Patrick Sakdapolrak on the EU project HABITABLE that investigates links between climate change and migration (in German)

07.06.2021
 

The LANGUAGE project seeks to combine different knowledges about the Anthropocene, highlighting perspectives from developing countries.

28.05.2021
 

Austrian newspaper FALTER features a mention of our "Anthropocene" lecture series in the latest issue of FALTER.natur #10 (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.