The Department of Spanish Philology at the University of La Laguna, in collaboration with the Language and Literature Department, the Performing Arts Department, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the Complutense University of Madrid, is organizing the International Congress "Moving Forward Spain's Clock: Women, Public Sphere, and Intermediality in the Lyceum Club Femenino (1926-2026)." This academic event will be held at the Guajara Campus from April 15 to 17, 2026.

The aim of this congress is to reflect on the contexts, history, and cultural and political legacy of the Lyceum Club Femenino, as well as to delve into the mechanisms used by early 20th-century female creators to raise their voices and assert their active presence in the public sphere. Therefore, the congress will examine the structures and agents with which the Lyceum Club Femenino engaged, and continues to engage, in dialogue; explore its national and international antecedents; and analyze intermediality as a strategy of modernity that women explored to channel their feminist and professional projects.
In this way, the aim is to commemorate the centenary of the Lyceum Club Femenino, which is a precursor and cornerstone, to a great extent, of a feminist epistemology in art, politics and Spanish society of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The holding of an academic congress in the Canary Islands, based at the University of La Laguna, invites us to rethink scientific research in general, and literary studies in particular, from the perspective of decentralization and the peripheries, in what has been and is a fundamental enclave for transatlantic exchanges.

Congress Management

Manuel A. Broullón-Lozano (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

Ale Coello Hernández (University of La Laguna, Spain)

Alberto García-Aguilar (University of La Laguna, Spain)

Academic Secretary

Carlos Alayón Galindo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

Beatriz Martínez López (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE, COMPETENCE AND RECOGNITION BY ECTS CREDIT

The University of La Laguna, through the Vice-Rectorate for Culture and University Extension, will issue a certificate of attendance to all those who attend a minimum of 80% of the scheduled in-person class hours. Likewise, those who successfully complete the independent student work will receive a certificate of attendance and achievement, which is also recognized as an ECTS credit.

Contact: extuni@ull.es

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