Dr. Rogelio Bayod, SES member and a faculty at Cor Jesu College, will present his paper entitled "The IP continuing struggle to fight orchestrated cultural annihilation: The case of the Philippines" in the "Cross-cultural
Boethics and Consensus Building in Troubled Times - Engineering our
Genes, Societies and Environment: 8th Joint American University of
Sovereign Nations and Chulalongkorn University Intensive Bioethics
Training Workshop" to be held at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok,
Thailand this coming November 28-30, 2019.
Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University will be the mentor of Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc in the ASAP Global Justice Program Fellowship at Yale University. Prof. Pogge is the author of World Poverty and Human Rights. Dr. Maboloc will write his research on structural issues in Muslim Mindanao using the perspectives of Iris Marion Young and Thomas Pogge. ASAP is an acronym for Academics Stand Against Poverty. According to its website, it utilizes "scholarship to influence policy and public attitudes to poverty. Established in 2010, (ASAP) is a non-partisan, independent global organization aiming to eradicate severe poverty worldwide." It is based in New Haven, Connecticut. It is under the Global Justice Program at Yale. Fourteen scholars around the world were chosen for the ASAP Program. Pogge is the most prominent scholar on global justice. He proposed the global difference principle as a critique to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Rawls was Pogge's adviser at H