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07.04.2021
 

Eva Horn answers questions about her book on the Anthropocene in the context of the university's current semester question (in German)

24.03.2021
 

VAN is now official project partner of Climate Walk - an inspiring and ambitious project organised by the Wanderers of Changing Worlds.

 

 

09.03.2021
 

Geologist Michael Wagreich discusses the symbolic power of the Anthropocene and scientific evidence for the "age of humans" (in German)

01.03.2021
 

The Anthropocene confronts us with major challenges: What are the consequences of anthropogenic impact on nature, animals and human beings?

12.02.2021
 

"Records of Loss" by Axel Braun is now available to watch on our website.

Featured in the exhibition "After us, the Flood" @ KUNST HAUS WIEN

 

03.02.2021
 

Together with an international group of researchers, Prof Christian Köberl analyses subsurface dynamics and seasonal landslides on Mars (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.