Frozen in Time \ Interrogating Methods of Cold Storage and De-Extinction
The planetary colloquia take place at regular intervals and serve an academic exchange beyond disciplinary boundaries.
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/veranstaltungen/seminar/frozen-in-time
- Frozen in Time \ Interrogating Methods of Cold Storage and De-Extinction
- 2024-11-26T09:45:00+01:00
- 2024-11-27T15:00:00+01:00
- The planetary colloquia take place at regular intervals and serve an academic exchange beyond disciplinary boundaries.
26.11.2024 09:45 bis 27.11.2024 15:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
Hermann Hoffmann Akademie, Senckenbergstr. 17, 35392 Gießen
In the winter term 2024, the colloquium is realized as a collaboration between the Panel's publication fellow, Christian Kosmas Mayer, his colleague Adam Searle, and current Planetary Times Fellow, Charlotte Wrigley. Therefore, it includes an interactive workshop and artistic elements. Anyone interested is warmly welcome to join.
All life on Earth is defined by temperature. As soaring temperatures generate the need for artificial cooling measures, ecosystems collapse and species extinctions proliferate. As a response, there has been a rise in the practice of ‘cryo- banking’, in which biotic material is preserved by freezing with the potential to be resurrected in the future. This two-day workshop proposes that the process of frozen preservation is also a question of time: the temporality of the cryobank is a slowed, even suspended one. Buying time in the cryobank acts in opposition to the quickening timescales of the planet, and redefines what life – and death – mean in the Anthropocene.
Tuesday, 26.11.2024: Research Colloquium on “Shifting Narratives on Extinction and De-Extinction”
09:45 - Introduction
10:00 - Workshop
| The Last Bucardo: Making De-Extinction Public |
Christian Kosmas Mayer Artist Adam Searle Human GeographerUniversity of Nottingham |
13:00 - Lectures
| The Rekindling: Fictions and Desirable Future Natures |
Sarah Bezan Literature Scholar |
| Times of Extinction: Cryopreservation and Its Presents |
Veit Braun Sociologist |
15:00 - Visit to Justus-Liebig University' frozen collections
18:00 - Public Lecture Performance (Zeughaus Auditorium, Senckenbergstrasse, 3 35390 Giessen)
| Future Eaters |
Sophie J. Williamson Artist and Curator The Lecture Performance is open to all without registration. |
Wednesday, 27.11.2024: Participatory Workshop on “Temporalities of Cold Storage"
09:00 - Workshop
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Melting Memories or Frozen Fossils: Ice, Time, and the Arctic Archive |
Charlotte Wrigley Human Geographer Alexis Rider Historian of ScienceUniversity of Cambridge |
12:00 - Lunch
13:00 - Public Keyonte Lecture
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Anticipating and Deferring: Elements of a Politics of Suspension |
Thomas Lemke The Keynote Lecture is open to all without registration. |
15:00 - Group Presentations and Closing Remarks
**The event is realized under consideration of JLU's guidelines for more sustainable event management**