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Upcoming Events

Blurry Bodies – Blurry Selves: Corporeality in the Anthropocene

WORKSHOP - 5 June 2024, 10 am - 7 pm CEST

The interdisciplinary workshop will explore the interplay between bodies, landscapes, and large-scale earthly transformations in literature, culture, and theory. In this way, we seek to examine the contemporary clash of scales as an ongoing negotiation of blurry bodies continuously changing into novel, yet to be theorized forms.

Hybrid event: in-person at the University of Vienna & online via Zoom

More information on our event page.

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)

20.07.2023
 

Transport infrastructures in the Arctic expand rapidly in a geopolitical race for ressources, explains InfraNorth PI Peter Schweitzer (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.