The Social Ethics Society, in partnership with Cor Jesu College and La Salle University - Ozamiz, successfully conducted the 3rd leg of its 2021 Webinar Series. Asst. Prof. Menelito Mansueto of Letran gave a very scathing critique of the EDSA narrative while Dr. Rogelio Bayod discussed the state of indigenous peoples (IP) in the post-IPRA Philippines. Japanese scholar Asuna Yoshizawa of Kyoto University explored the cohabitation between Christians and Muslims in the Southern Philippines while Dean Benjiemen Labastin of La Salle put into question the thesis describing Philippine politics and society as a contested democracy. The event was hosted by Dr. Randy Tudy. LSU Philo Chair Gerry Arambala gave the rationale while Fr. Urbano Pardillo Jr. in closing pointed out the value of studying our history as people.
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...