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Event poster for the lecture series Anthropocene 2024

Upcoming Events

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)

25.09.2023
 

Rudolphina article by environmental geoscientist Thilo Hofmann on the role of plastic in modern agriculture and its impact on our planet.

04.09.2023
 

When alien species become invasive, this can have severe ecological consequences. IPBES experts therefore stress the need for preventive measures.

30.08.2023
 

The current energy crisis will worsen if we continue to rely on fossil fuels. So scientists develop new technologies for efficient energy conversion.

21.08.2023
 

Marshlands are often underestimated, yet they are valuable ecosystems in urgent need of protection and restoration (in German)

14.08.2023
 

The Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health" brings together 30 scientists who seek solutions for a sustainable future.

03.08.2023
 

At the research center WasserCluster Lunz, scientists analyse microorganisms to better understand their function in global carbon cycles (in German)

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.