The Congress Spanish Women on the Move (1939-2022) zooms in on literary and filmic representations of Spanish women’s answers to the political and economic challenges of Franco’s dictatorship. We interpret ‘Women on the Move’ in two ways: women who resist the oppressive dictatorship inside Spain, on the one hand, and women who leave their homeland…

    Este congreso se enfoca en la configuración de espacios y comunidades transnacionales por mujeres de dos flujos exílicos emblemáticos a América Latina, el judío y el español. Dado que las hijas y nietas de exiliados han ocupado y ocupan un lugar fronterizo y marginal en ese espacio del exilio, proponemos una perspectiva transgeneracional…

The 8th Fenix-congress (2022) zooms in on Jewish-Latin American and Spanish-Latin American women writers and their search for identity. The results of this congress are published in four Special Issues, the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Special Issue of the Fenix Network. The series of the 13th and 14th Special Issues, Feminine perspectives on the…

The 7th Fenix encounter (2021), Teresa of Avila: Exploring the diverse paths of a polysemic model of femininity (1936-1986)/ Teresa de Avila: Rutas de un modelo polisémico de feminidad (1936-1986), explores the varied influences exerted by Teresa of Avila, during the Franco period and the transition, on Spanish women artists and intellectuals, both in Spain…

The 6th Fenix encounter (2021), Networks and Routes of Spanish women in Argentinian exile/ Redes y Rutas de mujeres españolas en el exilio argentino (1939-1975), puts the spotlight on the networking strategies elaborated by Spanish women exiles in Argentina. The participating Fenix-members analyze the cross-border contacts, networks, and routes developed by the first generation of…

The 5th Fenix encounter (2020) reflects on the ethics of exile literature and gives a central place to the concept of “nonconformism”. As a case study, this meeting focuses on the transgression of the established norms in second generation exile Angelina Muñiz Huberman’s oeuvre. The results of this encounter are published in the 8th Special…

The fourth Fenix- congress (2019) highlights the experiences of Spanish women refugees during transit in France in the 1930s and 40s. The reflection revolves around the concepts of ‘Agency’ and ‘Transnationalism’. The results of this encounter are published in the 7th Special Issue of the Fenix Network: The female face of refugee transit: Spanish Women…

The third Fenix-Congress (2018), Spanish Exile and Italian Immigration in Argentina (1930-1976): Gender, Politics, and Culture reflects on women refugees’ and migrants’ experiences in Argentina. This third Fenix congress aims at gendering the image of Spanish exile and Italian migration in Argentina. The results of this congress are published as a series of 4 Special…

The second Fenix-Congress (2016), Escritoras españolas en el exilio mexicano: una perspectiva transgeneracional adopts a transgenerational and gendered perspective on the Spanish exile in Mexico. The Fenix-members discuss and compare the strategies used by first and second generation exiles to construct their identity in between two home countries with the strategies used by the second…

The first Fenix-Congress (2015), Writing the Hybrid self: the daughters of the Spanish exile (1975 – 2015), focuses on Spanish women in Latin American exile of the second generation who question the borders of traditional literary genres in their writing. The result of this first Fenix-collaboration is the Special Issue Escribir en Nepantla (Anales de…