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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.

29.09.2021
 

The monthly MARIPOLDATA Ocean Seminar Series offer a virtual space to learn about ocean governance issues.

20.09.2021
 

"Realfiktion Klimarechnungshof" invites the submission of artistic concepts dedicated to the audio-visual investigation of climate change knowledge.

08.09.2021
 

New Marine Biodiversity Country Dashboard which presents some of the ethnographic and bibliometric data collected by the project.

19.08.2021
 

A team of researchers around Jan Landwehrs investigates what mesozoic climate trends reveal about anthropogenic climate change (in German)

02.08.2021
 

MARIPOLDATA has just published a new literature database for scientific publications on intergovernmental marine biodiversity negotiations.

30.07.2021
 

7-9 September 2021 (online) MARIPOLDATA contributions: Innovative Panel chaired by VAN member Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Alice Vadrot

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.