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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)

18.04.2023
 

Plastics are indispensable in modern agriculture, their intensive use causing severe environmental damage. But what can be done? (article in German)

12.04.2023
 

12 April 2023, 7 pm CEST - Talk by ecologist and biodiversity researcher Franz Essl at the Wiener Vorlesungen (in German, livestream available)

12.04.2023
 

Researchers of the University of Vienna analyse "tipping points" that can fundamentally unsettle complex ecological and social systems (in German)

04.04.2023
 

Hybrid event at Kärnten Museum with artist Kristoffer Stefan

Part of the online lecture series "The Anthropocene"

View for photos of the event

30.03.2023
 

The global network Q-MARE investigates the environmental history of oceans to improve the protection of marine ecosystems (article in German)

22.03.2023
 

Klimarechnungshof is an Austrian initiative that calls for effective actions against climate change. Assembly on 24 April 2023, registration open.

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.