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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)

16.02.2023
 

The research project "Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World" explores changing perceptions of air and air pollution.

01.02.2023
 

The AWG has evaluated 12 candidate sites for an Anthropocene GSSP. All sites are marked by anthropogenic and geochemical changes.

25.01.2023
 

25 Jan 2023, 4:30 pm CET - Speakers: Nigel Clark and Yuliya Yurchenko | Part of the IHR Partnership Seminar Series "Anthropocene Histories" (online)

18.01.2023
 

18 Jan 2023, 5-6:30 pm CET - Talk by Prof Lisa Levin on "Climate Change and the Deep Sea: Science-Policy Perspectives" (online via Zoom)

11.01.2023
 

11 Jan 2023, 4 pm CET - Talk by Kristina Dietz & Felix Dorn on "Energiewende und grüner Extraktivismus" (in German)

Part of the ie.talks series.

14.12.2022
 

What is the Anthropocene made of? Recordings of scientific and artistic exlorations presented at 'Unearhing the Present' (May 2022, hosted by the HKW)

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.