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26.-27. November 2024 | Frozen in Time: Interrogating Methods of Cold Storage and De-Extinciton

The Planetary Colloquium and Worship “Frozen in Time” is organized by Planetary Times Fellows Christian Kosmas Mayer and Charlotte Wrigley in collaboration with Adam Searle. The event will take place in Hermann Hoffman Academy, Giessen. Please register until 20.11.2024.

  • 26.-27. November 2024 | Frozen in Time: Interrogating Methods of Cold Storage and De-Extinciton
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  • The Planetary Colloquium and Worship “Frozen in Time” is organized by Planetary Times Fellows Christian Kosmas Mayer and Charlotte Wrigley in collaboration with Adam Searle. The event will take place in Hermann Hoffman Academy, Giessen. Please register until 20.11.2024.
When

Nov 26, 2024 to Nov 27, 2024 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

Where

Seminar room 024, Hermann Hoffman Academy

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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. 

Frozen in Time: Interrogating Methods of Cold Storage and De-Extinction is a two-day workshop that proposes frozen preservation as 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.

Between the 26 and 27 November, the Planetary Times Fellows Christian Kosmas Mayer and Charlotte Wrigley invite an interdisciplinary group of researchers and artists to discuss and elaborate on the interrogation of Cold Storage and De-Extinction as methodological frames for study of climate emergencies.

Registration can be made  here until the 20.11.2024.

The event is realized under consideration of JLU’s guidelines for more sustainable event management.