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Conference “The Anthropocene as Event”

27.11.2025 Event Tips

Austria's largest glacier, Pasterze, and a digital infoboard showing its rapid disappearance over time

27-28 Nov 2025 - Conference on Global Entanglements Between Universalism and Particularism, organised by the DocSchool Section “Global Entanglements”

Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections

14.11.2025 Updates

A forest road with trees to both sides, visible signs of logging on the left

The CENTRAL workshop at Charles University Prague from 9-10 Oct 2025 connected Anthropocene researchers and students from Central Europe.

MOOC Environmental Emergencies

01.10.2025 Updates

MOOC teaser image featuring a tree growing out of a raised human hand in a fist, overgrown with roots and leaves

Open interdisciplinary online course that covers the fundamentals of the major environmental and climate threats our world is facing.

Lecture Series Environment, Climate, Sustainability

15.09.2025 Event Tips

Hand-drawn map of Vienna with a green path leading through the city, icons that represent climate solutions along the way, and a sign pointing towards 'Future'

How do we move from knowledge to action? What can we do to act within planetary boundaries and thus shape a future worth living?

International Conference “Elemental Voicings”

28.08.2025 Updates

Teaser image of the "Elemental Voicings" conference, featuring a historic circle diagram of the elements in green, red, blue and yellow

A Look Back on the concluding event of the research project “Landscape, Life, Form: Anthropocene Poetics in Contemporary German Fiction”

Planet Earth Day an der Uni Wien

27.04.2025 Event Tips

Waterfall with rainbow visible in the mist, at the bottom: drawing of curious children peeping over the edge of the image

27 April 2025 - Open Event am Geozentrum der Universität Wien für Familien, Schüler*innen, Lehrer*innen und zukünftige Studierende

Upcoming Events

Forum Anthropozän 2026 – Connectedness. Zukunftsverbunden

11.06.2026 Conference

Aerial view of mountain lakes and rivers crossing in the center

This year's Forum Anthropozän looks at national parks in the Anthropocene, exploring how ecological and social issues intersect in these spaces.

Current Humanities Research in Anthropocene Studies

11.06.2026 Workshop

Image collage with circular shapes - some showing Earth seen from space, others in blue to green colour

11 June 2026, 9:00 am–6 pm CEST

In-person event (in English)

University of Vienna

Bohemia at the Primeval Sea | A CarbonCulturesxCE Lecture

04.05.2026 Lecture

Historic illustration in black-and-white that reconstructs the prehistoric flora and fauna in the region of Bohemia

4 May 2026, 1:15 pm CEST

Guest Lecture by Philipp Kohl (in German)

In-person (Uni Campus, Vienna)

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In the Media

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Earth surface covered in clouds, seen from space

NASA | Tim Kopra

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