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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)

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)

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

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.