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Ralph A. Litzinger

Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
201F Friedl Building, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


“Life After Apple in China: The Limits of Transnational Protest,” · December 6, 2012 Lecture
“Labor, Life and Death: The Campaign Against Apple in China,” · November 26, 2012 Lecture
“From Labor Protests to Self-Immolation.” · November 26, 2012 Lecture Freie University, Berlin, Germany
In Conversation with author Andra Ang, To The People, Food is Heaven · November 16, 2012 Other Full Steam, Durham, NC, Durham, NC
Engagement and Activism: The Tibet Case · November 2, 2012 Lecture Machik Conference on Women in Global Tibet, Washington DC
Travels in the Quake Zone · September 4, 2012 Lecture Duke University
“The Crisis of Development in West China” · April 6, 2012 Lecture Lanzhou, China
Invited Discussant · November 18, 2011 Lecture Annual Anthropology Meetings, Montreal
The Great River Tour: Activism in China's Anti-Dam movement · November 11, 2011 Lecture Yale, Agrarian Studies
Writing Histories of Ethnic Borderlands · September 1, 2011 Lecture Zurich, Ethnographic Museum
Ethnic Religious Revival in Shangri-la · August 25, 2011 Lecture Asian Resource Center, Singapore National University
East Asia Regionalisms: The Border View · June 11, 2011 Lecture Berlin, Freie University
Dissent, Surveillance, Detainment: The New Politics of the Environment in China · March 31, 2011 Lecture Asian Studies Meetings, Hawaii
Dissent, Surveillance, Detainment: The New Politics of the Environment in China · March 30, 2011 Lecture Association for Asian Studies
Migrant Education and the Making of Healthy Youth in a Beijing Middle School · March 4, 2011 Lecture Oxford Univeristy
“Re-thinking Nation and Nationality in China’s Border Zones,” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 17-21, 2010. · December 18, 2010 Invited Talk New Orleans
“Cyborg Circuits: Ethnographies of Contemporary Knowledge Production,” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 17-21, 2010. · December 18, 2010 Lecture New Orleans
“Border Crossings: Borders, Frontiers, and Cultural Contact Zones,” Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, Il., March 26-29, 2009. · December 18, 2010 Invited Talk Chicago, Il
Mackik Annual Meeting · October 23, 2010 Lecture Washington, DC
Machik annual working group meeting · December 31, 2008 Lecture
The Spring 2008 Protests in Tibet · September 13, 2008 Lecture University of Colorado Boulder
The Tibet Conversation · April 15, 2008 Lecture
Keynote Lecture, Environment and China Lecture Series · March 3, 2008 Lecture Pomona College

Service to the Profession


Too many to list! · November 26, 2012 Editorial Activities
Tenure Review, Carlos Roja, AMES · December 18, 2010 Editorial Activities