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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.

06.06.2024
 

6 June 2024, 5 pm CEST - Event at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) with a keynote by Alice Vadrot on Science and Environmental Policy

08.05.2024
 

Extreme heat waves are becoming more frequent due to anthropogenic climate change. Cities are especially vulnerable to warming and must respond now.

24.04.2024
 

Die Anthropozän-Ringvorlesung machte am 24. April 2024 im kärnten.museum Station. Michael Wagreich sprach zum Thema "Anthropozän"

22.04.2024
 

We are concerned about seeing the leading bodies of geosciences negate evidence for the momentous anthropogenic impacts on the Earth System.

17.04.2024
 

17 April 2024, 4:45 pm CEST - Film screening "The Anthropocene: The age of mankind" and panel discussion with VAN founder Eva Horn

14.04.2024
 

The EGU2024 will take place from 14-19 April 2024, including a panel on “The Great EGU Climate Debate: The Anthropocene - Epochalypse Now?”

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.