Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Oregano: Stanford Anthro talk - "My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File," What role did possibly being a hippy play in your time in Romania with regard to your book?, Reed College and Stanford's Katherine Verdery - (Professor), Romania World University and School, Concerned here too about democracy, social justice and human rights (see wiki subjects below with MIT OCW) in all ~200 countries and their official and main languages, and am thinking that WUaS will be able to hire the faculty online, hopefully Stanford and Reedie graduate students for example, to teach this as graduate student instructors, to begin



Dear Katherine, (and Nancy),

Thanks for your excellent Stanford Anthropology talk yesterday: "My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File" - https://anthropology.stanford.edu/events/colloquium/my-life-spy-investigations-secret-police-file - and great to meet you right before your talk. (I went to Reed from '79-85 and lived in Portland until '87, majoring in Religion, and to some degree in German too). What did you major in at Reed? (I just noticed in Reed's Iris directory that you majored in Anthropology in '70 - a fascinating time in Oregon, I'd think ... https://iris.reed.edu/directory/alum/130781 - and your Ph.D. from Stanford in Anthropology in 1977, also a fascinating time and place).

What role did possibly being a hippy play in your time in Romania with regard to your book, and especially inter-culturally in a sense?

I wanted to ask you both about CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in ~300 languages with MIT OCW in its 5 languages, and planned in each of all 7,097 living languages, and my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project re your talk, but the opportunity didn't present itself, so I hope to ask you further about these when we meet again.

Here, by the way, is where you'll find the Romania World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - as well as the Romanian language wiki subject for open teaching and learning - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - planned in Romanian, when they begin.

Julian Dumitrascu in Transylvania / Romania is the named CEO of the WUaS Press / Co as well - https://twitter.com/IuliuDumitrascu/status/1062408823137320961 - and it would be great to talk further about the WUaS Press / Co in Romania and Europe too.

And do you happen to know Nancy Larson (O'Sullivan) - https://iris.reed.edu/directory/alum/121899 - who spent a year, I think, in Bucharest in the early 1980s? (She's a friend from Reed, and I went to Mike and Nancy's wedding at the Quaker Meeting in Portland).

And re your talk, here are two wiki subjects at WUaS, to which, for example, we might add your book -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Surveillance

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Privacy

- to give you an idea about how WUaS works, as well. Check out how MIT OCW which students will be able to take for credit, eventually in all ~200 countries' languages online in group video, and eventually in a realistic virtual earth, to give you an idea of how WUaS works.

Is this you - https://twitter.com/kmverdery1?lang=en?

Am seeking a position in the Stanford Anthropology department, and one book ahead I'm planning to write will compare the STEM innovation ethos at Stanford with that of MIT from the '60s & '70s forward. Might I possibly please talk with you at some point about Stanford in the '70s re its alternative culture aspects especially? As a child of the '60s too (I was born in 1960) - which you introduced yourself as yesterday - I'm particularly interested in the '60s and '70s' in my Harbin ethnographic project, at Stanford, and with regard to its freedom-seeking movements as (counter-)cultural influences in so many ways, in my academic work especially.

Very nice to meet you and looking forward to connecting again at some point.

All the best, Scott

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Anthropology
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (not yet in other languages)
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/anthropology
- https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity
- https://iris.reed.edu/directory/alum/123192

Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

(OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand ) )





Visit the Harbin gate in Google Street View here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ where you can "walk" down the road '4 miles' to Middletown and 'amble' around the streets there, if inclined. And add some photos or videos if you have them - re a new social science method I'm developing called ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy. (Have also explored related Stanford history questions here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/wild-boar-carols-music-singing-boars.html - and - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/biological-organisation-do-you-recall.html - only a bit, for ex.).






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Hi, Scott and Katherine,

It’s nice to hear from you. I recently checked Katherine’s book out of the library, as recent political events have raised memories of living in Bucharest and fears for our democracy. I worked at the American School of Bucharest from December 1981 to June 1982, between my second and third years of Reed.

Katherine, if you are ever in San Diego, I’d love to take you out for dinner or coffee, and if you speak in San Diego I would love to hear your talk. I’d love for more people to know what’s at stake when we edge away from democracy, the rule of law and a commitment to civil rights. 

All the best,
Nancy 



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Hi, Nancy and Katherine, 

Thanks so much for your note, Nancy. And likewise, Katherine, if you are ever in the San Francisco Bay area again, I’d love to take you out for dinner or coffee, and if you speak at Berkeley or another university in the SF Bay Area, I would love to hear your talk. World University and Schools is planning to offer online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas online, accrediting on MIT OCW - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - and MIT High School - https://ocw.mit.edu/about/media-coverage/press-releases/highlights/ and https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/. Is the American School in Bucharest I.B. Nancy? 

Concerned here too about democracy, social justice and human rights (see wiki subjects below with MIT OCW) in all ~200 countries and their official and main languages, and am thinking that WUaS will be able to hire the faculty online, hopefully Stanford and Reedie graduate students for example, to teach this as graduate student instructors, to begin.

Thank you again so much, Katherine, for your Stanford talk. 

All the best, 
Scott


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