North Valley College will host the 15th Social Ethics Society Conference slated early next year, according to Dr. Roger Bayod, the Vice president of the SES and head Organizer of SES 2025. The event will be fully in-person and will be held at Mergrande Resort in Davao City. The Board of Directors of the SES will discuss the theme and other matters pertaining to the conference. Details and the Call for Papers will be released in October 2024. Prospective plenary speakers include Bro. Noelvic Deloria, president of the Holy Cross of Davao College, Dr. Daniel Mishori of Tel Aviv University, Dr. Asuna Yoshizawa of Kyoto University, and Dr. Juichiro Tanabe of Waseda University.
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...