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Event poster with teaser text and a visual symbolising the four elements

Upcoming Events

TAGUNG "Elementares Sprechen"

3 - 4 July 2025, 9:30 am - 6 pm CEST

The international conference "Elemental Voicing: Strategies and Aesthetics of a More-Than-Human Literature" will explore how animate entities and elemental forces shape the aesthetics of more-than-human narratives.

The event will be in German and takes place in-person in Vienna.

Location: Schreyvogelsaal (Hofburg, 1010 Wien)

More information on our event page.

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)

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

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.