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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)

25.10.2021
 

25 Oct 2021, 5pm CEST - "The Case for the Anthropocene: 20 Years Later", conversation with Jan Zalasiewicz and Eva Horn (live via YouTube)

25.10.2021
 

New Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on climate change taught by VAN member Thomas Glade and FGGA colleagues this semester (in German)

18.10.2021
 

18-19 Oct 2021 - Initial meeting of the UNESCO Project IGCP 732 "LANGUAGE of the Anthropocene" (organised by the University of Vienna)

13.10.2021
 

13 Oct 2021, 7pm CEST - VAN member Prof Ulrike Felt will present on the future of science at the Wiener Vorlesungen (in German, livestream available)

06.10.2021
 

Winter term 2021/22 - A series of talks on "Sustainable Solutions for Planetary Health", hosted by the Environmental Research Network (ERN)

01.10.2021
 

Online seminar series at the IHR (London), co-organised by Prof Anna Echterhölter, exploring the historical matrix of 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.