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Event poster with teaser text and a visual symbolising the four elements

Upcoming Events

TAGUNG "Elementares Sprechen"

3 - 4 July 2025, 9:30 am - 6 pm CEST

The international conference "Elemental Voicing: Strategies and Aesthetics of a More-Than-Human Literature" will explore how animate entities and elemental forces shape the aesthetics of more-than-human narratives.

The event will be in German and takes place in-person in Vienna.

Location: Schreyvogelsaal (Hofburg, 1010 Wien)

More information on our event page.

06.05.2025
 

6 May 2025, 6 pm CEST - Public panel discussion at Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, organised by the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH)

29.04.2025
 

29 April 2025, 6:00-7:30 pm CEST - Hybrid event at kärnten.museum & online (in German, part of the lecture series "The Anthropocene")

27.04.2025
 

27 April 2025 - Open Event am Geozentrum der Universität Wien für Familien, Schüler*innen, Lehrer*innen und zukünftige Studierende

11.03.2025
 

11 March 2025, 5-7 pm CET - "Introduction to the Anthropocene" with Jan Zalasiewicz, Eva Horn, Michael Wagreich and Sabine Seidler

20.02.2025
 

New monthly seminar series on ocean governance, with a focus on recent developments in data, science, and technology, hosted by TwinPolitics.

07.02.2025
 

7-8 Feb 2025 - Conference on European Perspectives on Wilderness, Rewilding and Biodiversity Conservation (organised by CETEP)

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.