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.
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