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.
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...