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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)

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19.10.2023
 

19-20 Oct 2023 - Anthropocene Conference for Interdisciplinary Crossovers in Knowledge Development at University of Wrocław (PL)
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10.10.2023
 

10 Oct 2023, 6 pm CEST - Panel Discussion (in German) at Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, organised by Forschungsverbund Umwelt und Klima
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01.10.2023
 

Conference "The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies" (4-5 April 2024)

CfP open until 15 Oct 2023
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26.09.2023
 

In September, we visited our colleagues at NICHE (Ca’ Foscari University Venice) to network and plan future collaborative projects.
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25.09.2023
 

Rudolphina article by environmental geoscientist Thilo Hofmann on the role of plastic in modern agriculture and its impact on our planet.
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04.09.2023
 

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