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20.07.2023
 

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

17.07.2023
 

17 July 2023, 4:30 pm CEST - Public opening event of AEMS & GBS Summer Universities 2023, in-person at the University of Vienna & online (livestream)

11.07.2023
 

The Anthropocene Working Group officially announced Crawford Lake, Canada as Anthropocene GSSP site (read on at the Max Planck Institute's website)

10.07.2023
 

10 - 12 July 2023 - 1st ECMN Conference on Migration and Im/mobilities in the Context of Climate Change

University of Vienna

19.06.2023
 

19 June 2023, 5 pm CEST - "Planet and Humans: Can we still be saved?"

Panel discussion with Ulrike Felt and Thilo Hofmann (in German)

15.06.2023
 

15-17 June 2023 - The Forum Anthropocene takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question how innovation can promote sustainable development.

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.