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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.

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.