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Ateneo professor to travel to China as Visiting Scholar at Lanzhou University

​Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and the Chair of the Social Ethics Society, will travel to China next month as a Visiting Scholar at the invitation of Lanzhou University. He will have the opportunity to conduct academic work at the university's research facilities and libraries, engage with professors and students, deliver a lecture in a forum, and visit Beijing and Shanghai. The trip is fully funded by Lanzhou University as part of its academic exchange program. Dr. Maboloc's research focuses on the moral cultivation of citizens. He will be hosted by Lanzhou University’s philosophy department, which is officially housed within the School of Philosophy and Sociology (兰州大学哲学社会学院). As part of one of China’s elite "Double First-Class" (formerly Project 985) institutions located in Gansu Province, the department carries a unique reputation for anchoring rigorous academic thought in the historically and culturally rich ga...
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Updated List of Accepted Abstracts in the 2nd SES-PUP International Ethics Conference at Waseda University

1. Erwin Richmond Bautista (University of Santo Tomas) - When Political Equality Breaks: Democratic Legitimacy Under Extreme Economic Inequality 2. Klein Fernandez, PhD (University of the Philippines Los Baños / UP Manila) - Exploring the Feasibility of Multispecies Justice as Alternative Ethical Framework to Strengthen Environmental Laws in the Philippines 3. Yrein Canzon (Waseda University) - Who Deserves to Belong? A Foucauldian Critique of Recognition, Citizenship, and Relational Precarity among Japanese-Filipino Children 4. Roland Theuas DS. Pada, Ph. D. (University of Santo Tomas) - From My Problem to Everyone Else’s Problem: A Prolegomena to Socialised Violence 5. Kenneth Centeno, CM (Adamson University) - Listening to the Voices from the Peripheries in the Digital Age: Exploring Anadialectics as an Ethical Framework 6. Lorenzo Bandillon, Jr. & Gian Carlo Villaluz (Divine Word Mission Seminary / University of Santo Tomas) - Sapagkat ang Pilosopiya ay Ginagawa: A Struggle for...

[CALL FOR PAPERS] Mindanao Conference on Public Health

  Dr. Nima Rezaei of Tehran University of Medical Sciences will deliver the keynote address at the Mindanao Conference on Public Health. The event, hosted by the Social Ethics Society and North Valley College, will be held in-person at North Valley College, Kidapawan City, on August 3, 2026.  Conference Theme: "Bridging Science and Society: Mindanao and the Future of Public Health"  The conference aims to gather academics, researchers, students, and medical practitioners to discuss and engage with vital issues concerning the role of science in public health policy. About the Keynote Speaker  Dr. Nima Rezaei is the founder of the Universal Science Education Research Network (USERN). A leading expert in immunology, he holds a doctorate degree from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He has published more than 1,000 Scopus-indexed papers and has been cited over 140,000 times.  Submission Guidelines To join the conference as a presenter, please submit...

Top Scientist to deliver the Keynote Address in Public Health Conference to be hosted by the SES and North Valley College

  Dr. Nima Rezaei of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences will deliver the Keynote Address (in-person) in the Mindanao Conference on Public Health that will be hosted by the Social Ethics Society and North Valley College this coming August 3, 2026 at North Valley College in Kidapawan City. The theme of the conference is Bridging Science and Society: Mindanao and the Future of Public Health. The event hopes to gather academics, researchers, students, and medical practitioners to discuss and engage on important topics and issues concerning the role of science in public health policy. Dr. Nima Rezaei is the founder of the Universal Science Education Research Network. He has published more than 1,000 Scopus-indexed papers and has been cited more than 140,000 times. His research is on immunology. He holds a doctorate degree in the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

The Philosopher behind The Harshest Things You'll Ever Learn about Love

  Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc,  author of The Harshest Things You'll Ever Learn about Love, is a contemporary Filipino political philosopher. Recognized as the top-ranked researcher for philosophy in the Philippines by the Alper-Doger (AD) Scientific Index from 2023-25, he is an Associate Professor at the Ateneo de Davao University where he is primarily based and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. He was awarded the Public Intellectual Prize by the Philosophical Association of the Philippines (PAP) in 2020. He was a fellow of the ASAP Yale Global Justice Program and was mentored by the renowned philosopher Thomas Pogge. Trained in political party building and democratic governance in Bonn and Berlin, Germany by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Maboloc’s philosophical work is uniquely anchored in the geopolitical and cultural realities of the southern Philippines, specifically Mindanao. Rather than simply echoing Western thought, his philosophy seeks to deconstruct elit...

The Davao School of Radical Democracy released

The Davao School of Radical Democracy: Southern Voices Reimagining Philippine Politics, a volume edited by Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc and Dr. Mansoor Limba, has been released. The book is published by ElziStyle Publishing. About the Book “The Davao School of Radical Democracy is a compelling and provocative academic volume that examines the contested terrain of democracy, power, and political identity from the perspective of the Global South. This book challenges dominant liberal and Western-centric narratives of democracy by foregrounding conflict, affect, and historical marginalization as constitutive elements of political life.” ––Rakhmat Hidayat, PhD, Professor of Sociology, State University of Jakarta “This volume is an excellent introduction to contemporary Filipino political and philosophical mind. It examines liberal versus radical democratic theory through the prism of Philippine political experience, especially the challenges of the rise of Rodrigo Duterte and the re-emerge...