Dr. Anton Heinrich Rennesland, a faculty member of the Philosophy Department of the University of Santo Tomas, is one of the Plenary Speakers in the 14th Social Ethics Society Conference this coming February 1-2, 2024 at Cor Jesu College in Digos City. Dr. Rennesland is doing a paper that cuts across a return to nature and indigenous practices. The theme of the event is "Peace and Conflict Studies, Emerging Technologies, & Ecological Sustainability." For more information, send a message to the convenor, Dr. Rogelio Bayod through his email: 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...