Latin American writers who have addressed the topics of violence and justice read from their work featured at Review 88 on May 15 at the Americas Society. Authors Alonso Cueto Caballero (Peru), Claudia Hernández (El Salvador), and Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina) read from their pieces and editors provided commentary on the theme.

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During the Symposium Alexander von Humboldt and the Order of Nature, scholars talked about Humboldt's influence on arts, humanities, and the social order. Looking at the eighteenth-century figure as "the last of his kind" and "the world's citizen," respondents focused on Humboldt's views of the earth through his use of landscape painting.

Speakers:

• Georgia de Havenon, Exhibition Guest Curator
• Katherine Manthorne, Professor of Art of the Unites States, Latin America and Their Cross-Currents, 1750-1950, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
• Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University
• Kevin J. Avery, Senior Research Scholar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Concluding the Symposioum Alexander von Humboldt and the Order of Nature, Pablo Diener and Alicia Lubowski-Jahn discussed the prominence of nature in Humboldt's work. In "The Creation of a Science Accessible through the Senses: Humboldt and the Travelers' Art," Diener focused on scientific aspects of nature; meanwhile Lubowski-Jahn's talk centered on ecology.

Speakers:

• Pablo Diener, Professor in the History Department at the Universidad Federal de Mato Grosso, in Brazil
• Alicia Lubowski-Jahn, Exhibition Guest Curator