Adrienn Gecse, PhD
Freelance Writer
I write for people who live, move, and feel between cultures. My work supports international businesses, travel agencies, education and volunteer programmes, and cultural platforms in communicating clearly, ethically, and responsibly. I write thoughtful, research-grounded content for people navigating cultural transition and for organisations working with travellers, students, and internationally mobile communities.
culturalcloseups.com
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba by Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Book review
Cuban artists are known for their authenticity. They can gently ask for your heart only to break it into pieces, but they do it so beautifully that you will go back asking for even more pain. Cuba can absorb you in ways I haven’t experienced before.
Writers are especially skilled at locking emotions into the moment. They do it with the simplest tool which is describing reality as they see it. There are no exaggerated adjectives and impressive sentence structures designed to give t...
Time Out
Egy este, amikor a város a lábaid alatt hever: újra jön a Libegők Éjszakája
Hírek
Libegőzz naplementében vagy a csillagos ég alatt!
Július 12-én immár 10. születésnapját ünnepli a Libegők Éjszakája, amikor is kora estétől egészen hajnalig ringatózhatunk lassan a város fölött a naplementében vagy a későbbi órákban csillagfényben.
Mikor és hol?
A Zugligeti Libegő 19:00 és 01:00 óra között várja a látogatókat Budapest egyik legszebb kirándulóhelyén, ahol megcsodálható a páratlan János-hegyi panoráma. A kivilágított Budapest és a csillagos égbolt varázslatos hangulatot t...
New Writing North - World Writes
Does the heart belong to one's mother tongue?
I participated in a multilingual creative exchange workshop with World Writes, with people from all over the world, sharing around 25 different languages within the group. As a final assignment, we had to submit a short writing about what our native or second language means to us. My writing is about Spanish, which came into my life as an adult and completely swept me off my feet. The writings were published in the form of a small booklet in May 2025.
Mongolian National University of Arts and Culture
The Role of Arts, Crafts and Statue Making in Traditional Tibetan and Mongolian Societies
Abstract.
The word 'art' carries with it different denotations that vary according to time periods and culture. In the article, I examine what we can call art in a given milieu, whether or not we can call the products of traditional societies art works, and what role handicrafts play in the daily life of Tibetan and Mongolian people. Related to this, I overview the role of craftsmen in these societies.
culturalcloseups.com
The Eastern European woman
She is like any other woman in the world.
If you are here for dating advice, feel free to click away. I am just sharing some of my personal experiences and showing you who we really are.
Myth
If you are reading this from Western Europe or the United States, and your worldview is dominated by prejudices you are not even aware of, chances are that in your mind the Eastern European woman is slender, blonde, blue-eyed, and money is her god. Despite the latter, to add a hint of contradiction, she ...
Élet és Tudomány (Life and Science)
Az asantik aranya (The gold of the Ashanti)
This is my first publication, which I wrote in 2004, as a university student, in Hungarian, about my research topic at the time, the Ashanti people of Ghana and the significance of gold and the gold trade in their culture. I share it as a nostalgic reminder of how it all began.
Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts, Ulaanbaatar
Unique Masterpieces in the Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum
The volume introduces 69 artworks from the collection of the Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), to spread the cultural heritage of the Mongols for a wider audience.
I worked at the museum for six months, advising on the content and translation of the catalogue.
culturalcloseups.com
A celebration of the Cuban guitar – Eduardo Martín and Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas start their anniversary tour
In the autumn of 2008, I wandered into London’s Brunei Gallery for a free concert. Little did I know that this seemingly ordinary event would lead me to organize a solo trip to Cuba in 2025, which would then inspire me to start writing the book I had always dreamed of. But then, as a start, Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas, a Cuban guitar virtuoso took to the stage.
He is labelled as a classical musician on major platforms and in various interviews and reviews, but it would be a mistake to pigeonhole...
Atlas Translations
Beyond Goulash: Breaking down Stereotypes Associated With Hungary and the Hungarian Language
Goulash, horse riding, and a language considered impossible to learn are what come to mind when Hungary is considered as a destination. However, as we push those stereotypes associated with Hungary aside, there’s so much more to discover in this diverse country, its capital, Budapest, and beyond.
Crisol Translation Services
This Is the Translation Process You Should Follow for a Good Translation
Ahh, the translation process! Imagine it as a maze from where you will find your way out only by being aware of its turns and entrants, already at the start. You need patience, wit, and determination to make your way through it.
This article will outline the essential steps you should take for a successful translation, why they are important, and what efficiencies you can gain by integrating artificial intelligence and machine translation technologies into your workflow (whenever safe to do s...
Let's Go 2 Morocco
Let's Go 2 Morocco - Off the Beaten Track
I was tasked to create a brochure and a description of an organized trip to Morocco. (21-30 April 2023)
The tour takes us from Marrakech to the south of the country through ancient medinas, archaeological, and World Heritage sites, a Roman city and an oasis town, and fields rich in fossil remains and minerals. The focus was on sustainable tourism and an authentic experience.
International Association for Mongol Studies
Statues and amulet boxes in the Museum of Ethnography
The volume offers the finest selection of precious items related to the culture of the Mongols preserved in libraries and museums in Budapest, Hungary. I was tasked to introduce the Hans Leder Collection in the Museum of Ethnography. The Leder collection gives a deep insight into the lives and daily rituals of Buddhist devotees, showing us a slice of Buddhist traditions that had been eliminated by the purges for decades to come. Among the objects I describe in the chapter are statues and amulet boxes used by monks and devotees alike.
global.oup.com
Oral Narratives from the Early Twentieth Century
The article gives an insight into the twentieth-century history of Mongolia by analyzing oral narratives. The narrative stories that I present in the article describe the lives of various monks, the teachers of the storyteller. Through these stories we get a glimpse into the Stalinist suppression that took place between 1937 and 1939, when Mongolian society was brought to the brink of collapse.
culturalcloseups.com
Tibetan Monks at London’s Kings Place – Say what?
Buddhist monks from Tashi Lhunpo Monastery are going to perform in one of the most well-known venues in London. Why is it a big deal? London venues regularly host unusal or radically different events after all. This event exceeds them all in bringing a ceremony to Europe, that, in its fullness, is reserved mainly for Buddhist practitioners.
Historically, Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, founded in 1447 by the first Dalai Lama, was the seat of the Panchen Lamas, the second highest-ranking lineage in th...
Translators without Borders’ Post
The second guest post in our International Women’s Day series comes from Adrienn Gecse, PhD. Adrienn is a professional translator from Hungary and a member of CLEAR Global’s TWB community. She has a PhD from the Doctoral School of Linguistics in Budapest, and speaks Mongolian, Hungarian, English, and some Yoruba. Adrienn told us about Katalin Karikó, and the importance of education in advancing girls’ and women’s rights: Katalin Karikó Education has never felt more important than in the past ...