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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)

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05.02.2024
 

Radio Ö1 interview with Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna) on the Anthropocene and the new epoch in history it signifies (in German)
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15.01.2024
 

15 Jan 2024, 6 pm CET - Semester Question Panel Discussion with a keynote by Prof Mark Miodownik (UCL) on "The Materials of the Future"

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12.01.2024
 

Millions of defunct anthropogenic objects are circling through Earth's orbit - a growing risk in the global space race (article in German)
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13.12.2023
 

Mimicking 'plant power' through artificial photosynthesis by capturing the sun's energy in chemical compounds could drive the solar energy revolution.
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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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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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