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Event poster with teaser text and a visual symbolising the four elements

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.

06.02.2025
 

A new study by climate scientists from the University of Vienna investigates the effect of traffic-related microplastics on cloud formation.

29.01.2025
 

Major EU industry sectors rely substantially on uncertain carbon removal technologies instead of phasing out fossil fuels (more on ECH website)

22.01.2025
 

22 Jan 2025 - Upcoming seminar exploring the fraught history of extraction ('Anthropocene Histories' series, organised by UCL Anthropocene)

18.01.2025
 

New documentary on the AWG's global search for the Golden Spike of the Anthropocene, by Cédric Defert and Cécile Dumas (Look at Sciences, ARTE France)

13.01.2025
 

The oceans are hotter than ever recorded by humans, with the ocean surrounding the Antarctic continent experiencing one of the fastest warming rates.

07.01.2025
 

Public Lectures Series hosted by the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, open to students and the general public (recordings of past events available)

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.