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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)

20.07.2021
 

VAN supports the University of Vienna's "Third Mission" that aims to facilitate the transfer of academic knowledge to address societal challenges.

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.

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.