Blog / Cultures of the Cryosphere – Our Complicated Relationship with Artificial Cold
Do we need to cool everything as excessively as we do? Why and how did our collective love affair with cold turn into a toxic romance that threatens our very…
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The Australian National University Canberra is offering two PhD scholarships. Applications are open until August 7th – apply now!
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Lecture / Talk: Dr. Alina Wandelt on “Getting a Sense of the Cryosphere – Notes from the Artificial Cold in New Orlean…
Talk: Dr. Alina Wandelt on "Getting a Sense of the Cryosphere - Notes from the Artificial Cold in New Orleans" (Essen, Germany & online)
: Talk: Dr. Alina Wandelt on "Getting a Sense of the Cryosphere - Notes from the Artificial Cold in New Orleans" (Essen, Germany & online)
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Lecture / Talk: CryoFellow Dr. Floramante SJ Ponce on “Between Aesthetic and Anesthetic – The Affective Consequences o…
Talk: CryoFellow Dr. Floramante SJ Ponce on "Between Aesthetic and Anesthetic - The Affective Consequences of Air Conditioning for Young Laotian Scammers"…
: Talk: CryoFellow Dr. Floramante SJ Ponce on "Between Aesthetic and Anesthetic - The Affective Consequences of Air Conditioning for Young Laotian Scammers" (Essen, Germany & online)
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Workshop / Workshop “Sustainability Theatre: Role-Playing Blockchain” at Sustainability Sciences Conference 2026 in Lau…
CryoCultures team members Anastasia Margariti-Börgel and Dr. Manuel Harms join the Sustainability Sciences Conference 2026 in Lausanne for a workshop…
: Workshop “Sustainability Theatre: Role-Playing Blockchain” at Sustainability Sciences Conference 2026 in Lausanne
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Event / Kulturen der künstlichen Kälte. Begriffs- und Technikgeschichten des wohltemperierten Lebens
Lecture by Alexander Friedrich and Stefan Höhne in the Advanced Seminar on Modern History/History of Technology, hosted by Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler, Technical…
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CryoLecture / Event / Patrick Brodie – The Geopolitical Ecology of AI
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Patrick Brodie (University College Dublin) will give the fourth CryoLecture on January 8th in Paderborn, Germany. The event…
: Patrick Brodie - The Geopolitical Ecology of AI (hybrid event)
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CryoLecture / Event / Martin Schmitt – The Early History of Data Centers: historical development and environmental impacts
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Martin Schmitt will give the third CryoLecture on January 8th in Paderborn, Germany. The event is open to the public and…
: Martin Schmitt - The Early History of Data Centers: historical development and environmental impacts (hybrid event)
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Event / Panel Discussion: Suzana Alpsancar at SICP Symposium 2025 Digitale Resilienz (Paderborn, Germany) – in German
Im Rahmen des SICP Symposium 2025 - Digitale Resilienz - ist Prof. Suzana Alpsancar Teil des Panels zu "Organisation, Governance und Prozesse"
: Panel Discussion: Suzana Alpsancar at SICP Symposium 2025 Digitale Resilienz (Paderborn, Germany) - in German
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Lecture / Talk: Suzana Alpsancar on Sustainability vs scalability at the Sustainable AI Conference 2025 (Bonn, Germany)
On September 17th, 2025, Suzana Alpsancar will give a talk on Sustainability vs scalability at Sustainable AI Conference 2025 (Bonn, Germany).
: Talk: Suzana Alpsancar on Sustainability vs scalability at the Sustainable AI Conference 2025 (Bonn, Germany)
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Announcement / Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) joins CryoCultures!
Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) joins the CryoCultures research project to study the artificial cryosphere.
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CryoLecture / Event / Video / Nicola Twilley – Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (video available)
We are pleased to announce that Nicola Twilley, author of the award-winning book Frostbite will give the second CryoLecture on July 8th in Darmstadt, Germany.…
: Nicola Twilley - Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
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Event / Lecture / Urban Cryospheres – Histories of well-tempered Futures
Dr. Stefan Höhne will give a public lecture at the Colloquium Modern History / Contemporary History at Free University Berlin, Germany.
: Dr. Stefan Höhne on Urban Cryospheres – Histories of well-tempered Futures
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Blog / Cold: From a boundary phenomenon of life to a cultural precondition
Alexander Friedrich published a journal article on "Kälte. Von einem Grenzphänomen des Lebens zu einer kulturellen Grundbedingung" in: Zeitschrift für…
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CryoLecture / Event / Video / Prof. Bronwyn Parry on the History and Future of Artificial Cold
Hybrid public lecture during the CultCryo Kick-off Workshop in Essen, Germany - video available!
: Prof. Bronwyn Parry on Cultures of the Cryosphere: Charting emergent geographies and historiographies of our relations with cold
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Event / Lecture / Cultures of the Cryosphere. Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Planetary Cooling
On December 5th, 2024, Dr. Stefan Höhne gave a lecture on “Cultures of the Cryosphere. Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Planetary Cooling” as part of…
: Lecture: Dr. Stefan Höhne on Cultures of the Cryosphere. Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Planetary Cooling
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Event / Lecture / Being in the World of Global Warming
Prof. Alexander Friedrich delivered a response to the lecture by Susanna Lindberg (University of Leiden) in “Being in the World of Global Warming”
: Lecture: Prof. Alexander Friedrich on “Being in the World of Global Warming”
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Blog / News / German version of “Regimes of Freshness” (Friedrich/Höhne) re-published open access in “Critical Tempe…
German version of "Regimes of Freshness" (Friedrich/Höhne) re-published open access in "Critical Temperature Studies"
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Blog / Radio Lecture “Cultures of Cold – Cryopolitics, Climate Control, and Well-Tempered Bodies” now online!
Stefan Höhne German lecture "Cultures of Cold – Cryopolitics, Climate Control, and Well-Tempered Bodies", broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Nova, is now available…
