The 9th Social Ethics Society Conference has been moved to a new venue. The event will now be held at Sacred Heart Spirituality and Formation Center in Davao City. The 6.4 magnitude earthquake in the region last October 16, 2019 resulted to a considerable damage to some of the buildings at Cor Jesu College in Digos City.
The keynote speaker, Dr. Daniel Mishori of Tel Aviv University, has already arrived. He will have a week-long immersion in the IP communities of Davao Occidental. A total of 40 papers will be presented in the gathering. The SES conference also includes an educational tour at the Philippine Eagle Center in Malagos, Davao City.
By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Philippine Democracy, and the Philosophy of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. His body of work often engages with topics of social justice, structural inequality, and political ethics, particularly in the context of the Philippines. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, the author was trained in political party building and democratic governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Dr. Maboloc is the author of two books, Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte and The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory. He is the editor of the two-volume Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society, a collection of essays by Filipino scholars and academics, notably from Mindanao. He also authored several textbooks, including Et...