The full program will be released not later than mid-June 2025.

The conference will open with a keynote lecture by Alessandro Rippa (University of Oslo), titled “Anthropocene Landscapes? Or, a Renewed Anthropology of Infrastructure for the Current Times.” The lecture will take place on Monday, September 22, 2025, at 18:00 CEST, in the Aula am Campus (Hof 1.11, i.e., courtyard 1, room 11), at the University of Vienna Campus. Doors open at 17:30 CEST.

Over the following two days (September 23 – 24, 2025), the conference will continue with presentations organized into thematic sessions. These sessions will take place at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, on the 4th floor of the Neues Institutgebäude (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna. The conference will conclude on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, by 17:00 CEST.

An optional dinner at a traditional Viennese wine tavern (Heuriger) is planned for Tuesday evening, September 23, 2025. This gathering will provide an excellent opportunity for networking and fostering both disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations in infrastructure research. Please note that this networking dinner requires separate reservation and payment.