Dr. Daniel Mishori of Tel Aviv University will headline as Guest Lecturer in the last leg of the 2021 SES Webinar Series. The theme is "Philosophical Perspectives in the Margins". The virtual event will be held this July 6, 2021 from 2PM to 6PM. Dr. Mishori will discuss biopolitics and medical technocracy. The other speakers for this event are Mr. Gerry Arambala of La Salle University - Ozamiz, Dr. Cesar Tecson of Cor Jesu College, and Dr. Godiva Eviota of Mindanao State University - Marawi Campus. Dr. Roger Bayod will be the host of the event. The webinar is a collaboration between Cor Jesu College and the Social Ethics Society. To join, please send an email to roger.bayod@gmail.com. Registration is free.
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...