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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)

28.05.2021
 

Austrian newspaper FALTER features a mention of our "Anthropocene" lecture series in the latest issue of FALTER.natur #10 (in German)

28.04.2021
 

Interview with VAN member Ulrike Felt on the complexity of climate change and the need to communicate scientific findings effectively (in German)

15.04.2021
 

Geologist Michael Wagreich and literary scholar Eva Horn comment on debates about the Anthropocene in Forum+ on derStandard.at (in German)

13.04.2021
 

Right on cue of the AWG's newest study, co-authored by Eva Horn and Michael Wagreich, Jan Zalasiewicz will discuss defining the Anthropocene.

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.

 

 

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.