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Online Lecture Series "Welcome to the Anthropocene" 2024

Tuesdays, 5:00-7:00 pm (CET & CEST), starts on 12 March 2024

In the summer term 2024, we will again be hosting an interdisciplinary lecture series on the Anthropocene. 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)

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05.12.2023
 

5 Dec 2023, 7:00 pm CET - Panel discussion on climate action and intergenerational justice at Volkstheater Wien (organised by LBI)
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05.12.2023
 

Modern sustainable technologies require the extraction of rare metals from the Earth - calling their "sustainability" into question.

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27.11.2023
 

27 Nov 2023 - Talk by Prof Eva Horn as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series "Planetary Thinking" at the JLU Giessen (in German)
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15.11.2023
 

New IUGS publication by the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) that discusses seven challenges related to formalising the Anthropocene as a new epoch.
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07.11.2023
 

7 Nov 2023, 4:30 pm CET - Book launch event in Vienna for the new volume "Futures Literacy" co-edited by Carmen Sippl (PH Niederösterreich)
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31.10.2023
 

Interdisciplinary lecture series at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen organised by the Panel on Planetary Thinking from Oct 2023 - Jan 2024
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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.

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