Emily Won

Oct 31, 2024 | vanderbilthustler.com | Emily Won

Vanderbilt celebrated Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month through student organization-hosted events honoring the tradition of recognizing and celebrating APIDAs’ history, culture and contributions. While APIDA Heritage Month is nationally recognized during May, Vanderbilt observes this celebration in October. Throughout the month, the Asian American Student Association hosted three main events under this year’s theme of flowers.

Oct 19, 2024 | vanderbilthustler.com | Charlotte Castle |Emily Won

Vanderbilt University continues to deny investments in CoreCivic, a company that owns and manages prison and detention centers, amidst federal investigation into the company and Trousdale Turner Correctional Center. The Justice Department is investigating this facility for staffing shortages, physical violence, murder and sexual abuse, according to a press release by the Office of Public Affairs.

Aug 2, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Ange Mlinko |Deborah Smith |Emily Won

An unnamed​ man and woman come together, slowly and arduously, over the course of a novel. She is a poet who has turned mute; he is a language teacher going blind. Her first bout of muteness, which struck when she was a teenager, was cured suddenly in French class by a single word: ‘bibliothèque’. Now she is attending classes in Ancient Greek to see if something in the language can dislodge her mysterious impediment.

May 30, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | Deborah Smith |Emily Won

Narrators Earl Kim and Greta Jung humanize Han Kang's moving story about two people who are suffering physical and mental anguish. After an unnamed Korean woman experiences several traumatic life blows, her language disappears. She enrolls in a Greek language class with an instructor who has just learned he's going blind. As the two stories alternate, Jung enters the mind of the wordless woman, conveying her deeply disturbed state through her lyrical poetry.

Apr 21, 2023 | startribune.com | Deborah Smith |Emily Won

Plato's allegory of the cave, which examines how our conception of the world relates to our perception of it, has been sparking debate ever since the "Republic" hit Athenian agorae nearly 2,400 years ago. The great Greek philosopher argued that as we are unshackled from the cave wall and acquire freedom, education or experience, our understanding becomes dependent not solely on our senses but on reason, which allows us to grasp the true nature of things.