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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.

09.12.2020
 

Talk by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Horn

Dec 9 2020, 6pm CET

Hosted by the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin

19.10.2020
 

New study by the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) shows that anthropogenic energy consumption increased dramatically since 1950 (in German)

31.08.2020
 

As part of the large-scale EU project HABITABLE, Prof Patrick Sakdapolrak studies the impact of climate change on mobility and migration (in German)

14.11.2019
 

In the project "ExtremA", a team of researchers at the University of Vienna collect data on extreme weather events in alpine regions (in German)

21.10.2019
 

Interview with Prof Thomas Glade about the project "ExtremA" and the danger of slow rather than sudden, disruptive environmental changes (in German)

08.06.2018
 

VAN members Michael Wagreich and Kira Lappé explain the Anthropocene debate and the challenges of formalising a new geological epoch (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.