Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc of Ateneo de Davao University will speak in the plenary of the 14th SES Conference in Cor Jesu College this coming February 1-2, 2024. His paper is "Iris Marion Young and the Politics of Difference." The Conference is jointly sponsored by Cor Jesu College and the Social Ethics Society, with the support from the Local Government of Digos City. The convenor, Dr. Rogelio Bayod of Cor Jesu, has been instrumental in bringing local and international scholars to Digos in the past five years since joining the SES. For more information on the conference, send an email to roger.bayod@gmail.com.
By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Philippine Democracy, and the Philosophy of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. His body of work often engages with topics of social justice, structural inequality, and political ethics, particularly in the context of the Philippines. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, the author was trained in political party building and democratic governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Dr. Maboloc is the author of two books, Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte and The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory. He is the editor of the two-volume Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society, a collection of essays by Filipino scholars and academics, notably from Mindanao. He also authored several textbooks, including Et...