The Centre for Organization and Time (COT, IOA) invites to a seminar @bout time on:

Times of crisis. Studying (climate crisis from an imagined future perspective

With Lisa Suckert Associate Research Professor for Sociology at the University of Antwerp.

Abstract
The diagnosis of “polycrisis” may be analytically vague but certainly points to a major feature of our time:  In the last ten years, crises have been omnipresent. In her talk, Lisa Suckert shows how a focus on radicalized uncertainty of the future and disrupted temporalities is helpful to understand the conflicts, frictions and impasses related to crises. A novel theoretical framework that distinguishes three different layers of uncertainty – ontological, epistemological and processual uncertainty of the future – allows to compare and distinguish different types of crises and critically assess respective crises policies. Building on this framework the talk will chart some of the research paths ahead and particularly show how the concepts of imagined futures and radicalized uncertainty can advance the socio-economic study of climate change.

Brief Biography

Lisa Suckert is Associate Research Professor for Sociology at the University of Antwerp. After her PhD at the University of Bamberg, she worked as Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and was Visiting Fellow at Universität Wuppertal, the London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris. Lisa works at the intersection of economic, political and cultural sociology with a special focus on crises, temporality, and imagined futures. In a recent project, funded by the ERC, she explores how economic imagination fuels conflicts, frictions and impasses of decarbonization in Europe.

Time and Date 
September 8^th, 2025,
13.30-15.00

Location
K 1.53
Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14 A, 2000 Frederiksberg