Dr. Cesar Tecson will give a lecture in the final leg of the 2021 Social Ethics Society Webinar Series this July 6, 2021. Dr. Tecson, who obtained his doctorate in computer science at Ateneo de Manila University, will talk about "Technology and Culture: How Technology can Preserve the Past." The theme of the virtual event, to be hosted by Dr. Roger Bayod, is Philosophical Perspectives in the Margins. Dr. Tecson has worked on a project concerning the preservation of the culture of the B'laan Tribe. Other speakers include Dr. Daniel Mishori of Tel Aviv University, Dr. Govida Eviota of MSU-Marawi, and Mr. Gerry Arambala of LSU-Ozamiz. To register, 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...