The Social Ethics Society, in cooperation with Waseda University and the Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology Philosophy Department, will hold its first Webinar for 2024 this coming July 5. The speakers are Dr. Juichiro Tanabe of Waseda University and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc of Ateneo de Davao University. Both will talk about Peace and Conflict Studies in relation to the War on Gaza. The reactors include Mr. Alvert Dalona (MSU-IIT) and Dr. Rec Eguia (USEP). For more information, please email Mr. Menelito Mansueto, event organizer and webinar host. Email: migs_mansueto@yahoo.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...