The Colloquium series of the summer term 2026 by the Research Training Group GRK 2833 “East Asian Futures” will next feature an online lecture by Assoc. Res. Prof. Dr. Lisa SUCKERT, who already spoke during the Research Training Group’s inauguration event back in 2023. You are cordially invited to attend.

Assoc. Res. Prof. Dr. Lisa SUCKERT (University of Antwerp)
“Radicalised Uncertainty. A Sociology of Imagined Future Perspective on Crises”
Thursday, June 18, 2026, 6–8 pm (Central European Summer Time)

Bio
Prof. Dr. Lisa SUCKERT is a sociologist who examines the economic, political, and cultural aspects of modern capitalism. Following her 2014 PhD from the University of Bamberg, she served as a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and held visiting positions at Universität Wuppertal, the London School of Economics, and Sciences Po Paris. In 2024, she completed her habilitation at the University of Hamburg and has taken on a position as Associate Professor of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at the University of Antwerp in the same year. Her current research focuses on imagined futures, crisis dynamics, decarbonization and climate change, political discourse and nostalgia, and social theory and transformation.

Organizer
Research Training Group 2833 “East Asian Futures: Visions and Realizations on National, Transregional and Global Scales”, Ruhr University Bochum and University of Duisburg-Essen.

Access to the meeting
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/63214745706?pwd=ypGLOLclN0VKqlPfDsxgsG06Mk7Por.1
Meeting ID: 632 1474 5706 | Password: 909618