Myra here.
It’s Tuesday! Time for Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Story Challenge. Letter this week is A and so I share a few pictures from the Arts Conference that I have just recently attended in Budapest.
A is for Arts Conference in Budapest
Our Own Presentation: Finding Magic and Marvel in Ordinary Things: A Discussion of Award-winning Stories for Children in the Philippines
My research collaborator, Professor Tuting Hernandez and I shared two papers:
(1) Narrative Themes of Award-Winning Stories for Children in the Philippines from 1991-2011
(2) Linguistic Socialization and Children’s Fiction: Behind and Beyond the Magic and Marvel of Palanca Award-Winning Children’s stories in Filipino
Unfortunately, we do not have a picture of ourselves presenting so I would only be able to include the summary as found in the programme booklet as could be seen above.
The venue was at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Keynote Speech: Patricia Leavy
One of the keynote speeches that spoke to me: Patricia Leavy’s Arts-Based Research and Technology: New Possibilities for Reaching the Public.
I especially liked the fact that she is also a social scientist (a sociologist by training) who is doing arts-based research. My own professional training is in clinical psychology and I am fascinated about the psychology of creatives and artists. And so, much of what she was saying resonated with me a great deal.
Gender Issues in Art
While there were a lot of interesting discussions and paper presentations, the panel on Gender Issues in Art was one of my favourites. The presentation that you can see here is entitled: Female Authorship and the Authenticity of the Feminine Voice as Exemplified by Bibliotheque Pascal by Katalin Kis from the Central European University in Hungary.
Queering the Point: Shame and Representation in Mainstream Media by Caryn Brissey from Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. She examined the “relationship of pride and shame within queer individuals and culture” and discussed issues “pertaining to inappropriate queer representation in mainstream media.”
A very vibrant discussion and Q and A followed along with Ken Hassell who discussed The Body Politic: Visuality and the Fabrication of Identity (2nd from left).
Playing Around after the Conference
Here is my research collaborator whom we featured here in GatheringBooks for our Academic Nook, Professor Tuting Hernandez, who wrote And the freak shall inherit the earth: Random Thoughts on Living on the Borders.
And this is me falling in love with Budapest. This place is gorgeous! I love the city!
Gathering Books 
Reblogged this on Flickr Comments and commented:
A is for Arts Conference in Budapest – for sure you have material now for next Tuesday too: B = Budapest!
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Hi Frizz, it could also be – B is for Bratislava! 🙂
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A is for Arts Conference in Budapest – for sure you have material now for next Tuesday too: B = Budapest!
P.S.:
hi Myra, just traveled from
Bratislava to Budapest by train –
I’ve reblogged you at
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/photo-storya-z-photo-story-challenge-a-is-for-arts-conference-in-budapest/
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Hi Myra – this a very interesting piece of reportage. Among other things I write for children, especially for those who aren’t very keen on reading. Children’s books often aren’t given the respect they deserve so it’s great to see aspects of children’s literature being discussed at a prestigious conference.
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That’s a fine article. I looked through my blogs for S Train, didn’t find anything, so just recorded A Train on Soundcloud. It’s one of my favorite songs and of course onje must hesr the Ellington Orchestra do it properly. They played it for 50 years every night. So, about the A Train: It’s the train that you take to go to Harlem. It’s all underground and it goes up to Fort Tryon Park. Ellington is inviting us to Harlem, to come to the clubs, the Cotton Club where he played for many years. Take the A Train, the IND line. Get off at 125th Street.
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What a wonderful post about this conference; the psychological aspect of creatives and artists is indeed a fascinating field, and to do research in this area must be quite wonderful. Your, and Professor Hernandez’ papers sound interesting. Can they be found somewhere to read?
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Hi Angeline, parts of it could be found in a chapter in our edited book “Beyond Folktales, Legends, and Myths: A Rediscovery of Children’s Literature in Asia.” We just launched our book during the last week of May during the Asian Festival of Children’s Content in Singapore. 🙂
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Thanks. I will look for it.
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You’re beautiful… whether it’s love of Budapest, or life in general… but you really look good.
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