Bird-of-paradise feeding young: UC Berkeley Anthro talk Friday, May 5 on "Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs and Tourism: "Naked Harbin Ethnography"" - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2017.htm, And my upcoming book is tentatively entitled "Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry," Glad that my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" is in at least 5 university libraries now

Glad to be giving this presentation at UC Berkeley on my Harbin book this Friday, May 5 -
http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2017.htm

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Hi Nelson & M,

Here's my draft abstract and updated bio information for my talk this Friday, with two photos. I've included my Naked Harbin Ethnography book's cover photo for the abstract - "The Last Wedding in the Harbin Warm Pool, 2001" (- for which I got permission from Tracy "Stormy" Edwards to use). Great photo! And could you please add to http://www.tourismstudies.org/People.htm#SM the Stanford arches' photo and update my bio on both pages with the following? (Could you also please capitalize the L in MacLeod as well?) 

Here's the title and abstract for my upcoming talk ...

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From the web site itself:
http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2017.htm
http://www.tourismstudies.org/People.htm#SM

2016-2017 Colloquium Series 

The Tourism Studies Working Group is pleased to announce ...

ACTUAL-VIRTUAL HARBIN HOT SPRINGS AND TOURISM:
"Naked Harbin Ethnography"

Scott MacLeod
Founder, World University and School

Friday, May 5, 5:00pm
Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall
University of California, Berkeley

Abstract:
In this talk I present an ethnographic interpretation of my new book "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin," chapter by chapter, as tourism to both actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs - in terms of contemporary theories in tourism studies (http://bit.ly/HarbinBook & https://twitter.com/HarbinBook). In this interpretation, a) on the ground "tourism," informed by a movement of "hippies to the hot springs" to actual Harbin from the 1960s to the present, is complemented by b) online tourism to virtual Harbin as a new methodology I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world- graphy, where digital group making, virtual world building and ethnographic wiki knowledge generation, and related STEM research, are central and generative to a new form of tourism studies' digital representation. Harbin is re-building from the devastating Valley fire of September 2015, and this talk will further examine how a new research group at World University and School - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ research-group.html - will seek to understand Harbin when it re-opens - by October 4, 2017.

Speaker Bio:
Scott G.K. MacLeod is an American academic and Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at World University and School - http:// worlduniversityandschool.org. He's taught "Network Society, Information Technology and the Global University" on Harvard University's virtual island, and on Penn State Isle in Second Life as a Penn State University instructor. He's taught both anthropology and sociology in real life at Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a Master's Degree in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Diploma of Research from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the information technology network society age, the world wide web cosmos, the virtual, and actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs. He is World University and School's founder, president and CEO. Wiki World University and School is CC MIT OCW-centric (in 7 languages) and CC Yale OYC-centric and seeks to develop major universities in all ~200 countries' main and official languages, as well as wiki schools in all 7,099 living languages; WUaS plans to offer online CC OCW Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees, partly in group video.

Personal web site: http://www.scottmacleod.com

Representative publication: "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin" (Academic Press at World University and School, 2016).

Previous UC Berkeley TSWG abstracts as reference:
- http://www.tourismstudies.org/ news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm
- http://www.tourismstudies.org/ news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm

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Previous UC Berkeley TSWG abstracts as reference:

- http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm

- http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm

Glad that my Naked Harbin Ethnography is in at least 5 university libraries now -  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/04/flying-and-gliding-animals-naked-harbin.html 

Just added your nice web site updates to my blog post from today - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/04/courtship-display-harbin-rebuild-team.html

Thank you, Scott

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My upcoming book is tentatively entitled "Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry" ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/04/courtship-display-harbin-rebuild-team.html

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Haiku-ish label in this blog ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/haiku-ish

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