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Upcoming Events

TAGUNG "Große Formen im Anthropozän"

5 - 6 December 2024, 10 am - 7 pm CET

The conference “Große Formen im Anthropozän” will focus on the challenges of narrating the Anthropocene in literature and the arts, experimenting with form and genre in response to the “clash of scales” in Anthropocene aesthetics and storytelling. The event will be in German and take place in-person in Vienna.

Location: Schreyvogelsaal (Hofburg, 1010 Wien)

More information on our event page.

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)

29.01.2021
 

In the Anthropocene community, we are saddened and commemorate Paul Crutzen for his invaluable work and contributions to Earth system research.

15.01.2021
 

15 January 2021, 9:00 - 11:15am

Hannes Bergthaller & Eva Horn

Workshop for PhDs & Advanced Masters Students

10.12.2020
 

The videofilm "Records of Loss" by Axel Braun documents the slow but continual decline of Austria's largest glacier, the Pasterze (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.