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Upcoming Events
Online Lecture Series "Welcome to the Anthropocene" 2024
Tuesdays, 5:00-7:00 pm (CET & CEST), starts on 12 March 2024
In the summer term 2024, we will again be hosting an interdisciplinary lecture series on the Anthropocene. 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)
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.