Cyprus mediterranean forests: Actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book proposal (it's entitled "Naked Harbin") next, Thanks, Rory, for your newsletter from Europe, In what European bookstores/venues might I do readings and signings?, Rory MacLean author of "The Magic Bus," Looks like you know a lot about Germany, Transnistria and Cyprus, among other countries, and could help inform and guide some of these World University and Schools - see the main Nation States' WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States ...

Thanks, Rory, for your newsletter from Europe ...

Greetings from the SF Bay Area. Looks like you're on the road again and writing further in interesting and varied directions - Cyprus. Writers are esteemed in Germany in an unique way. How was your Stanfords' talk?

I'm submitting my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book proposal (it's entitled "Naked Harbin") next to the B.P. in NY, which specializes in sociocultural Anthropology. Its founder and director knows UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Tourism Studies N.G., whom I know. It would be great to have it out by xmas, but it may be 2016 before it's published. We'll see.

In what European bookstores/venues might I do readings and signings - and at what time of year would be best? The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists and academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s, and my book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL." For my next Harbin book, I hope to build a virtual Harbin ideally in a movie realistic 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology. I'd like for folks to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience ... in their bathtubs for the releasing action of the warm waters - and write ethnographically about this. 

Looks like you know a lot about Germany, Transnistria and Cyprus, among other countries, and could help inform and guide some of these World University and Schools - see the main Nation States' WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States. Here, for example, is the very beginning of accrediting Creative Commons' licensed (and CC MIT OCW-centric in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC centric) Canada World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Canada - but not yet in the French language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/French_language - for example, or in other Canadian languages. (WUaS is planned in All languages as wiki schools). WUaS hopes also to become the Stanford / Harvard of the internet and in accrediting in all countries' main languages. 

Thanks for your update and happy writing travels!

Regards, Scott

Scott MacLeod

http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

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    It's bag-packing time again ... and this time without the need for the Writer Safeguard Mobile Protection Unit (as snapped in Pondicherry).

    This month's news is that Nick Danziger and I have been commissioned to create a book about some of the men and women who went missing in Cyprus during the tragic events of 1963-64 and 1974. As with our ICRC 'Missing Lives' project on the Balkans, this new book aims to support reconciliation between communities. We hope it may help in some small way to heal old wounds and to rebuild trust between the islanders.

    Before I set off to Cyprus, I'd be thrilled if some of you would join me in London where I'll be speaking about Berlin – and launching the handsome paperback edition of 'Berlin: Imagine a City' – at Stanfords Covent Garden on Thursday 25th June (at 6:30pm at 12-14 Long Acre, WC2). If you can't make it tomorrow, I'll be talking about the book later in the year at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday 10th October.

    If it's corrupt Russian satellite non-states and ersatz-Soviet soldiers saluting the hammer and sickle that tickle your fancy, then please come to the Edinburgh Book Festival for my talk on 'Back in the USSR: Heroic Adventures in Transnistria' on Thursday 20th August.

    Finally, as some of you know, Nick and I tutor a small and intensive annual Masterclass in Monaco. This year 'Telling Tales: The Art of Creating Stories in Images and Words' will be held from 28th September to 2nd October, and one place is still available on the course.  If you are interested please let me know and I'll send further details.  For those of you who have participated before, this year we will tailor the week with more 'specialisation' days – hence loads of one-to-one sessions for writers with me, and photographers with Nick – as well as talking through the next steps: structure, presentation, publishing, crowd-funding, print editions and beyond.

    I hope to see you in one or more of these places, or indeed in Cyprus on one or other side of the Green Line (maybe I should ring Writer Safeguard after all...).

yours ever,

Rory

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Cyprus: Geophysical and Road Map

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