Veit Braun: Memory Grinder. Brno. 10 June 2023.

Ruzana Liburkina: “I just feel better this way”: The Role of Situated Uncertainties for the Persistence of Family Cord Blood Banking. Brno. 8 June 2023.

Sara Lafuente-Funes: Mercados formados por personas: la incomodidad como constante cambiante en el estudio de las clínicas de fertilidad. Madrid. 20 May 2023.

Ruzana Liburkina: Kryotechnologien und Gesellschaft: Wie das Stilllegen von Leben menschliches Zusammenleben bewegt. Hannover. 16 May 2023.

Ruzana Liburkina and Veit Braun: Testing the Untestable: Assessing Vitality in Cord Blood Banks. Aachen. 17 March 2023.

Thomas Lemke: An den Grenzen des Sozialen. Lehr- und Forschungsperspektiven am Beispiel des Projekts „Cryosocieties“. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt. 7 February 2023.

Veit Braun: In the shadows of the dead: escaping de-extinction. York. 12 December 2022.

Ruzana Liburkina: Generating Storability: What it Takes to Produce the Possibility of Storing a Bio-object. Cholula. 10 December 2022.

Ruzana Liburkina: Kryotechnologien in Gesellschaft: Problembewältigung mit Nebeneffekten. Magdeburg. 18 November 2022.

Veit Braun: Das gefrorene Archiv. Temperatur und Gedächtnis in Biobanken. Beitrag zur Ad-Hoc-Gruppe »Zwischen heiß und kalt – Perspektiven einer Soziologie des Thermischen«, DGS-Kongress Bielefeld. 29 September 2022.

Thomas Lemke: Biopolitik revisited: Ein neues Regime der Kryopolitik? Beitrag zur Ad-Hoc-Gruppe »Zwischen heiß und kalt – Perspektiven einer Soziologie des Thermischen«, DGS-Kongress Bielefeld. 29 September 2022.

Thomas Lemke: Anticipating and Suspending: The Chronopolitics of Contemporary Practices of Cryopreservation. Turkish-German University, Istanbul. 9 September 2022.

Ruzana Liburkina and Sara Lafuente-Funes: The maintenance of vitality: conflicting temporalities in the field of cryobanking Panel “The times of Maintenance”. EASST 2022 Congress, Politics of Technoscientific Futures, Madrid. 9 July 2022.

Thomas Lemke: Cryopreserving the present? The climate crisis and the emergence of a politics of suspension. EASST 2022 Congress, Politics of Technoscientific Futures, Madrid. 8 July 2022.

Veit Braun: All the creatures great and small: Fragmented animal biobanking in post-EU Great Britain. T 2022 Congress, Politics of Technoscientific Futures, Madrid. 7 July 2022.

Thomas Lemke: Introducing CRYOSOCIETIES. Public event, Madrid. 7 July 2022.

Sara Lafuente-Funes Reproducción asistida y “vitalidad suspendida”: criopolítica en tiempos de incertidumbre. XIV Congreso Español de Sociología 2922 “Desigualdades, Fronteras y Resiliencia. Sociología para crisis globales”. Universidad de Murcia. 1 July 2022.

Ruzana Liburkina: Eager to Join in: What it Takes to Kick off a Project of Cryotechnological Suspension. Toward a Politics of Suspension? Time, Space, and Control in Cryopreservation Practices. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt. 24 June 2022.

Thomas Lemke: Temporalities and Temperatures: From Cryopower toward a Politics of Suspension? Toward a Politics of Suspension? Time, Space, and Control in Cryopreservation Practices. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt. 23 June 2022.

Veit Braun: On the Brink, by a Thread: Suspension and Inevitability in Animal Conservation. Toward a Politics of Suspension? Time, Space, and Control in Cryopreservation Practices. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt. 23 June 2022.

Sara Lafuente-Funes: The Intricacies of Freezing in a Reproductive Lab: Toward Different Politics of Suspension? Toward a Politics of Suspension? Time, Space, and Control in Cryopreservation Practices. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt. 23 June 2022.

Sara Lafuente-Funes Spanien als repoduktiver Markt Keynote at the Vernissage for “„Babys machen? “Eizellspende” und Reproduktionspolitiken“ At the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, organized in cooperation with Gen-ethisches Netzwerke e.V., Berlin. 8 June 2022.

Sara Lafuente-Funes: How to bring research on ARTs into policy debates. Burgdorf. 4 June 2022.

Sara Lafuente-Funes: Estudios sociales de la criopreservación reproductiva: asistir la reproducción para extender la fertilidad. Madrid. 7 February 2022.

Thomas Lemke: Latency and Liminality: Conceptualising Suspended Life in Cryopreservation Practices. Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Zentrum für Transformationsforschung (online). 25 January 2022.

Veit Braun: Arrest, Reverse, Continue: Cryogenic Life between Object and Process. Toronto. 6 October 2021.

Sara Lafuente-Funes: The role of freezing devices in the Spanish IVF economy: practices of coupling and decoupling eggs and embryos. Toronto. 7 October 2021.

Thomas Lemke: “The Great Dithering”: Cryopreservation, Climate Crisis and the Emergence of a Politics of Suspension. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Toronto. 6 October 2021.

Thomas Lemke: Welcome to Whenever: Exploring Suspended Life in Cryopreservation Practices. Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference 2021: STS AND THE FUTURE AS A MATTER OF COLLECTIVE CONCERN. Copenhagen Business School. 21 May 2021.

Ruzana Liburkina: Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive auf kryobiologische Anwendungen. Annual Meeting of the German Society of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. 19 November 2020.

Veit Braun: Remind Me when I Wake Up: Memory and Recollection in Animal Cryobanks. EASST/4S 2020 Annual Meeting, Prague (online). 20 August 2020.

Sara Lafuente-Funes: Vitrification as a game changer in an oocyte-fuelled bioeconomy within a context of reproductive (un)certainties. EASST/4S 2020 Annual Meeting, Prague (online). 20 August 2020.

Ruzana Liburkina: Bumpy Valorizations, or What Happens When ‘Frozen’ Matter Does Not Quite Come to Matter. EASST/4S 2020 Annual Meeting, Prague (online). 20 August 2020.

Ruzana Liburkina: CRYOSOCIETIES: Studying Cryopreservation Practices from a Social Science Perspective. Lower Saxony Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Implant Research and Development (NIFE), Hannover. 4 February 2020.

Thomas Lemke, Sara Lafuente, Veit Braun: Suspended Life: Exploring Cryopreservation Practices in Contemporary Societies (CRYOSOCIETIES). Goethe-University, Frankfurt. 18 July 2019.

Thomas Lemke: Reversing Extinction: Cryopreservation as a Form of Life in Frozen Zoos at the Conference “Aussterben: Darstellungen und Diskurse am Beispiel bedrohter Arten und Sprachen” Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin. 26 April 2019.

Sara Lafuente-Funes: Investigating egg freezing in Spain: Some programmatic ideas in the context of a new project around cryotechnologies at the Conference “Comparative and transnational perspective on technologies of fertility preservation and extension” Centre for Reproductive Research, De Monfort University, Leicester. 13 June 2019.

Sara Lafuente-Funes: Global Care Chains & Transferences of Reproductive Capacity in the Spanish Context at the Conference “Towards Reproductive (in)Justice? Mobilities, Technologies, Labourings & Decisions” XI AFIN International Conference, University of Granada. 4-7 September 2019.

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