This talk will focus on Professor Ioana Sendroiu’s body of work on temporalities of climate action, with particular focus on “Time’s Up: How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action,” which was recently published in American Sociological Review. Climate change is a peculiar phenomenon in that most effects are projected into the future even as we need to take action today. Prof. Sendroiu’s work takes up this tension, focusing especially on how people can be hopeful and creative in the face of the climate crisis. In addition to presenting the conceptual and empirical specifics of this research, she will also reflect on the experience of publishing at ASR, and will be happy to answer questions regarding this process.

About the speaker:

Ioana Sendroiu’s research surrounds navigating, innovating, and thriving in the face of social change. She is currently working on how people take creative action and innovate new technologies to deal with climate change, with a particular focus on carbon dioxide removal. Her work is published in a range of journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Socio-Economic Review, and Sociological Theory. Currently Assistant Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) Management & Strategy at the University of Hong Kong, she was previously Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

📅 Date: Tuesday, 10 February, 2026

🕑 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm

📍 Venue: CJT-9.29

🗣️ Language: English

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