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Event poster for the Anthropocene online lecture series 2025

Upcoming Events

Online Lecture Series "The Anthropocene" 2025

Tuesdays, 5:00-7:00 pm (CET & CEST), starts on 11 March 2025

An open online lecture series 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)

01.06.2022
 

1 June 2022, 8:15 pm CEST - Presentation of short films on the temporality of plants (at Stadtkino Vienna, Unstable Bodies & Plant Media Group)

01.06.2022
 

1 June 2022, 6:30 pm CEST - Talk by Eva Horn as part of the lecture series 'Das Ende Denken' organised by Collegium Generale (Universität Bern)

26.05.2022
 

26 May 2022, 6 pm CEST - The Wanderers of Changing Worlds will celebrate the upcoming start of the Climate Walk 2022 at Volkskundemuseum Wien.

12.05.2022
 

Special publication by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science with contributions by Eva Horn & Michael Wagreich and other VAN members.

10.05.2022
 

10 May 2022, 7 pm CEST - Welche Rolle spielt die Wissenschaft bei Entscheidungen? Podiumsdiskussion veranstaltet vom Forschungsnetzwerk Umwelt (ERN)

26.04.2022
 

We are delighted to announce that VAN member Ulrike Felt has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant on the topic of "Innovation Residues"

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.