Dr. John Weckert, professor emeritus at Charles Sturt University in Australia and editor of the journal, Nanoethics, will be the Keynote Speaker in the 14th Social Ethics Society Conference slated on February 1-2, 2024 at Cor Jesu College. The theme of the event is "Peace and Conflict Studies, Emerging Technologies and Ecological Sustainability." The Conference is expected to draw philosophy and ethics teachers from different regions in the country. Dr. Rogelio Bayod of Cor Jesu College is the convenor of the 14th Annual SES Conference. For more information, please send a message to the convenor through his email at this address:roger.bayod@gmail.com.
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