ICTA-UAB Summer Symposium 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the ICTA-UAB Summer Symposium 2025.The event is open to all members of the ICTA-UAB community and will be followed by a collective summer lunch.

ICTA-UAB Summer Symposium 2025
 

• Date: Wednesday, June 18th 2025
• Time: From 9.30 am to 2 pm
• Venue: ICTA-UAB
   

The symposium is a place for our institution to gather, build community, learn about our research and celebrate our achievements in a convivial way. It is also an opportunity to open up conversations and debates we might overlook or don’t take the time to explore.
 

Schedule

• 9:30  –  9:35h   - Institutional welcome by Director Isabel Pont (Sala Montseny)
• 9:35  –  10:05h - Presentation of MdM by Prof. Dan Brockington (Sala Montseny)10:05 – 10:30h - Mapping exercise of geographies and expertise at ICTA-UAB (Foyer outside Sala Montseny)
• 10:30 – 11:30h - Poster session - Floor 0 and 1
  
  We invite submissions from researchers at all career stages – including PhD candidates, postdocs, and senior researchers – who would like to share their work. Posters can present any aspect of your current or past research, and we encourage you to recycle previously presented works.
  Register and submit your posters until the 6th of June in this link.
   
• 11:30 – 12h - Coffee and presentation-making of the care tree - Potluck
   
• 12 – 13:30h - Townhall: What does it mean to do “brave science”? -  (Sala Montseny)
  
  In this summer symposium activity, the organizers at CARES propose creating a space for an important conversation at ICTA-UAB: what it really means to do “brave science”, the tagline of ICTA-UAB, in a world of intensifying crisis: what if everything is not excellent, actually? In the last year, researchers at ICTA-UAB have organized independently to campaign against the genocide in Palestine, to fight against sexist harassment at the university, and to struggle for fair working conditions and contracts amid the crisis in academia. In parts of the world where many of us are from, a wave of academic repression and crackdowns is under way as faculty members and students face censure for speaking out against a wide range of injustices. As the CARES collective, we ask: why are these struggles often so invisible at our workplace?
   
• 13:30 – 14h - Visit to the labs in floor -2
• 14h - Summer lunch - potluck (garden outside ICTA-UAB)