Prof. Mona Bhan to Address Saturday's Rafto Conference in Norway

November 2, 2017

Mona Bhan, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at DePauw University, will speak this Saturday, November 4, at the 2017 Rafto Conference in Bergen, Norway. The program is held to honor the recipients of the Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize (Rafto Prize), a human rights award presented annually by the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights.

This year's recipients of the Rafto Prize, Parveena Ahangar, leader of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, and Imroz Parvez, president of the of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, will keynote the session.

Learn more at this link, where a live webcast may be viewed on Saturday.

Professor Bhan is the author of Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare?. In 2013, she received the Exemplary Teaching Award, which is presented by the General Board of Higher Education of the United Methodist Church.