Earth city lights by night, seen from space, with a textbanner reading "Research for a Future We Want to Live In"
Our #new website is online! 🎉
We just launched our updated VAN #website with a new look and feel as well as additional content for everyone interested in the #Anthropocene 🌏
anthropocene.univie.ac.at
Check it out and let us know what you think! 😊
@univie.ac.at
#website #relaunch #univie
📗 At the Green Policy Lab, a summer school co-organized by #univienna & @iiasa.ac.at, you’ll explore how researchers can meaningfully contribute to green and evidence-informed policymaking. Join us & become part of a growing community shaping greener and more resilient futures!
📅: Apply by 9 March ⤵️
📢 New Publication🌊
📝 In their new article in MarinePolicy @wenwenlyu.bsky.social @arnela10.bsky.social & @alicevadrot.bsky.social examine the dual role of data in the implementation of the BBNJ Agreement — and how it reshaps data governance through
🌐Read here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
VAN News visual in blue featuring an abstract depiction of Earth seen from space
Just out - our quarterly #newsletter winter edition! ❄️
Our highlights:
🌏 Online lecture series on the #Anthropocene
🧩 VAN workshop on “Current Humanities Research in Anthropocene Studies”
#UniVie
You can sign up to our #mailinglist here: anthropocene.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
Photo of a Czech forest showing signs of human impact (cut-down trees, forest road cutting through the landscape) with text reading "Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connection"
Group photo taken at the Anthropocene Ruptures workshop in Prague
The first "Anthropocene Ruptures" #workshop took place at @charlesuni.cuni.cz in Prague from 9-10 Oct 2025 to connect researchers and students from Central Europe 🪢
To find out more, visit the CTS Anthropocene website: www.anthropocene.cz/en/
#Anthropocene #centralnetwork #research #univie
📣 Veranstaltungshinweis: ALES-Tagung: 'Schutz des Klimas durch das Strafrecht?'
Expert*innen der #Rechtswissenschaften diskutieren über aktuelle Entwicklungen im #Umwelt- und Klimastrafrecht. 🌍
📅: 4. November, ab 10:00 Uhr
📍: Großer Festsaal, Universität Wien
Anmeldungen noch möglich❗
Mehr: ⤵️ #klima
🌊 #OceanSeminar Series 🌍
Fall semester 2025 includes:
📅 Oct 29 — Patent Landscape in #BlueEconomy (Madhulika Bhati)
📅 Nov 19 — #PrivateSector for Ocean Science (Peter Burger)
📅 Dec 10 — #OceanData & Databases (Muriel Rabone)
🪼 Free & digital, open to all!
👉 Info: twinpolitics.eu/ocean-semina...
Call for Participation: 26th Austrian Climate Day by @ccca.ac.at and the Environment and Climate Research Hub at #univie! 🌍 Submit your presentations & posters and applications for the Young Scientist Award 2026. 📅 Deadline: 15 October 2025, more here 👉 ccca.ac.at/dialogformat...
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VAN #News Autumn / Fall 2025 🍂
Our quarterly #newsletter is out now with a showcase of some exciting #Anthropocene teaching initiatives and event recommendations for the winter term at @univie.ac.at !
#UniVie
You can sign up to our #mailinglist here: anthropocene.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2025 🌍
A day to raise awareness that global resources are limited - and that our choices today determine our #planet's liveability for #future generations 💦 🌱 ☀️
overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/pre...
#EarthOvershootDay #Anthropocene
The United Nations’ highest judicial body ruled that nations must prevent environmental harm and limit greenhouse gas emissions. The nonbinding decision pressures countries to fulfill climate pledges and opens doors for global climate cases.
23.07.2025 16:17 — 👍 2007 🔁 551 💬 84 📌 30
Stylised image of planet Earth, in green with text VAN News Summer 2025
VAN #News Summer 2025 🌞
Our quarterly #newsletter is out now with a wrap-up of our VAN activities this semester and an outlook on some exciting #Anthropocene events after the summer break!
📨 You can sign up to our #mailinglist here: anthropocene.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
International Conference in #Vienna
💦 Elementares Sprechen ▪ Elemental Voicing
🌱 3-4 July 2025, 9:30 am - 6 pm CEST
🔥 In-person event (in German mostly)
More info here: anthropocene.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
@univie.ac.at @fwf-at.bsky.social
#Anthropocene #conference #aesthetics #literature
Teaser image for the 8th Forum Anthropozän, featuring abstract shapes of mountains and digital networks, also text and logos
Online #LectureSeries "The #Anthropocene"
🌏 12 June 2025, 3-5pm CEST
#ZEIT-Gespräch @ the 8th Forum Anthropozän on the future possibilities and risks of #AI
In-person & online via Zoom #PanelDiscussion
Open to everyone interested: www.forum-anthropozaen.com/de/forum-2025
@zeit.de @univie.ac.at
Katrin Hornek & Karin Pauer explore the complexities of the Atomic Age at #Belvedere21 in their site-specific #performance JANUS 👥
Admission is free!
So if you're in #Vienna, find out how to register here: mailings.belvedere.at/m/16226884/5...
Online #lectureseries "The #Anthropocene"
🌏 3 June 2025, 5-7pm CEST
"AI, Ethics & the Anthropocene"
Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda (@uniklagenfurt.bsky.social)
Open to everyone interested, just register here: www.forum-anthropozaen.com/de/kooperati...
Online #lectureseries "The #Anthropocene"
🌏 27 May 2025, 5-7pm CEST
"Education in the Age of AI: Critical Thinking as a Key Competence for the Anthropocene"
Frano-Petar Rismondo & Erika Unterpertinger (@univie.ac.at)
Open to everyone interested: anthropocene.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
Online #lectureseries "The #Anthropocene"
🌏 20 May 2025, 5-7pm CEST
"Anthropocene Angst: Epistemic Diplomacy in Times of Climate Crisis"
Alexander Damianos (University of Kent, UK)
Open to everyone interested, just register here: www.forum-anthropozaen.com/de/kooperati...
@univie.ac.at
Online #lectureseries "The #Anthropocene"
🌏 13 May 2025, 5-7pm CEST
"Dehumanizing the Anthropocene: AI as Social Bullshitter"
Robert Braun @ihs.ac.at
Open to everyone interested, just register here: www.forum-anthropozaen.com/de/kooperati...
@univie.ac.at
Veranstaltungstipp für Wien: Der Environment and Climate Research Hub spricht morgen Abend im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien über Schadstoffe in Lebensmitteln: Kleine Dosis, welche Wirkung?
Anmeldung hier 👇
ech.univie.ac.at/event/13-umw...
Online #lectureseries "The #Anthropocene"
🌏 6 May 2025, 5-7pm CEST
"Two Tools for Learning (about) CultureNature Literacy. The CNL MOOC and the CNL CustomGPT"
Emanuele Bardone (University of Tartu)
Open to everyone interested, just register here: www.forum-anthropozaen.com/de/kooperati...
Online #lectureseries "The #Anthropocene"
🌏 29 April 2025, 6:00-7:30pm CEST
Hybrid event at kärnten.museum & online (in German)
"Künstliche Intelligenz & Atomkraft: Ein ethisches Dilemma im Anthropozän"
Find out more here: anthropocene.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
Heute ist #Earthday! 🌍 In der #Rudolphina finden sich spannende Beiträge von Expert*innen der Universität Wien rund um die Themen #Nachhaltigkeit, #Klimakrise und Materialien der Zukunft. ⤵️ 🧵
rudolphina.univie.ac.at
#EarthActionDay
Join us for this Anthropocene Histories seminar where Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse discuss how the ocean, in the years proceeding WWII, has been harnessed to become a space of ever-intensifying capital investment and innovation 🌊
📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/qQGsE
🌊Mining in the deep - our own @ehildeb.bsky.social observed the International Seabed Authority’s 30th Session in Kingston, Jamaica, and is sharing his observations on enormous challenges and little steps taken, including a last minute surprise 👀
Read more here 👇
twinpolitics.eu/big-challeng...
📅 Eventhinweis: 13. Umwelt im Gespräch – Schadstoffe in Lebensmitteln: Kleine Dosis, welche Wirkung? 🤔
Am 6. Mai 2025 diskutieren in der Oberen Kuppelhalle im @nhmwien.bsky.social Expert*innen über Fragen zur Sicherheit von Lebensmitteln.
Mehr Informationen zum Event & zur Anmeldung: ⤵️
Online #lectureseries "The #Anthropocene"
🌏 Tomorrow, 8 April 2025, 5-7pm CEST
"Critiques of the Anthropocene: Philosophical Perspectives on a new Human(ist) Epoch"
Ralf Gisinger @univie.ac.at
Open to everyone interested, just register here: www.forum-anthropozaen.com/de/kooperati...
VAN #News Spring 2025 🌼
Our quarterly #newsletter is out now - including several upcoming events that VAN is involved in this semester, like the "Planet Earth Day" @univie.ac.at on 27 April 🌏🌠🦕
#Anthropocene
You can sign up to our #mailinglist here: anthropocene.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
Online #lectureseries "The #Anthropocene"
🌏 Tomorrow, 1 April 2025, 5-7pm CEST
"Coastal Management in the Anthropocene - Nature-based Solutions in China"
Shasha Liu (Ludong University)
Open to everyone interested, just register here: www.forum-anthropozaen.com/de/kooperati...
@univie.ac.at
Von den Tiefen der Meere bis zu den Sternen: Forschen für unsere wunderbare Erde!
🌎 Planet Earth Day an der Uni Wien 🌎
So., 27. April im Geozentrum der #univie
Details zum Programm: ⤵️
planetearthday.univie.ac.at
