Video: Women Travelers Symposium - Launch of Review 84

This launch of the women travelers in Latin America issue of the Society’s acclaimed journal featured comments by editor Daniel Shapiro and guest editor Adriana Méndez Rodenas. The event featured readings by authors Carlos Franz, Pola Oloixarac, and Michael Schuessler, and translator Jessica Ernst Powell, who read from their respective texts in Review 84. The speakers touched on historical figures, travel in the Americas, and the notion of the sublime. The launch included commentary by special guest Hilda Benítez, who spoke about the novel Woman in Battle Dress, by her late husband, Cuban author Antonio Benítez Rojo. This launch will be conducted in English and Spanish. Copies of Review 84 will be available for sale at the launch.