Tolerance Resource Center
Presents Speaker on Eastern Insurgency

SOUTH EUCLID, OHIO—27 February 2009—Notre Dame College’s Tolerance Resource Center presents a lecture by Dr. Felix Moos titled “The Anthropology of Insurgency: Tibet, Nepal and India” on Thursday, March 12 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in Notre Dame College’s Little Theater. The talk will focus on Dr. Moos’ research and extensive experience as an anthropologist working in Tibet, Nepal and India in recent years. The lecture is free of charge and open to the general public.

Dr. Moos is a Professor of Anthropology and East Asian studies at the University of Kansas, where he has taught since 1961. After emigrating from Germany in 1948, he obtained a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle. Since then Moos has held numerous teaching and administrative appointments on both the national and international level. He has won many awards and honors for his teaching ability and was named a Fulbright scholar in 1958-60 and again in 1981-82.

Moos has authored numerous research reports and scholarly journal articles in his areas of interest (culture change and development, ethnic conflict, applied anthropology and ethnology, comparative value systems, the East, and Southeast Asia and the Pacific). He also contributes to the field of intelligence studies and in 2004 was the Primary Academic Sponsor for the establishment of the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program (PRISP), an area and language training program to enhance analytic capabilities for sixteen federal agencies.

Notre Dame College is located at 4545 College Road in South Euclid. The Little Theater is on the second floor of the Administration Building. For more information, contact Karen Zoller at 216.373.5267 or logon to www.NotreDameCollege.edu/tolerance/ for upcoming events for spring 2009.

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