Social Ethics Society

Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc completed his ASAP Yale Global Justice Program Fellowship. He was supervised by Dr. Thomas Pogge The research of Dr. Maboloc was on the roots of historical injustice in Muslim Mindanao and the causal factors of poverty in the region. The fellows received their Certificate of Completion during an online ceremony. Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University encouraged the fellows to apply what they learned from the program to help solve global poverty.  There are 14 ASAP (Academics Stand Against Poverty) fellows in the first cohort, which was launched in early January this year. The scholars, based in countries such as India, the UK, the United States, Germany, Brazil and the Philippines, come from diverse backgrounds and expertise. They developed research projects and wrote papers under the supervision of renowned philosophers from top universities, including Yale and Cambridge University. 

  Dr. Daniel Mishori, at present a lecturer at the Department of Exact Sciences at Tel Aviv University in Israel, will visit Mindanao in February 2025 as part of his sabbatical. This was revealed by Dr. Rogelio Bayod, who has invited Dr. Mishori for a second visit. The scholar is scheduled to give a lecture in the 15th Social Ethics Society Conference. He will also give talks at North Valley College in Kidapawan City and the Holy Cross of Davao College. Dr. Mishori is an expert in Healthcare Sciences and Ethics. He has previously visited Davao City in October 2019 and visited Indigenous Communities in Davao del Sur thereafter with Dr. Bayod. In coordination with the SES, Dr. Bayod has invited international scholars to the region, including Dr. Darryl Macer, Dr. Wataru Kusaka, and Dr. Juichiro Tanabe. 

The SES Journal of Applied Philosophy will release the Politics and Culture Special Issue Volume 2 in February 2025. Dr. Rogelio Bayod of North Valley College and Mr. Menelito Mansueto of MSU-IIT are the editors of the latest Special Issue.  The volume includes papers by Dr. Juichiro Tanabe (Waseda), Dr. Layne Hartsell (Chulalongkorn), and Dr. Daniel Mishori (Tel Aviv). Majority of the papers are from the proceedings of the 6th Politics and Culture Conference in 2024. 

  The 15th Social Ethics Society Conference will be held this coming February 6-7, 2025 at Mergrande Resort in Davao City. The event is in-person. The theme of the conference is, "History, Politics and Culture: Philosophical Perspectives on Mindanao." It will be hosted by North Valley College. To join the annual conference, send a 300-word abstract to the Scientific Committee. Please email your abstract as an attachment to this address: roger.bayod@gmail.com. The deadline for the abstract submission has been extended to January 10, 2025.  Papers based on the following are welcome: Peace and Conflict Studies, Democracy and Poverty, Indigenous Cultures, Education and Human Development, Environmental Ethics and Ecology, Women and Inclusion, Public Health, and the Bangsamoro. The confirmed Plenary Speakers include Bro. Noelvic Deloria (President of Holy Cross of Davao College), Dr. Juichiro Tanabe (Waseda University), Dr. Asuna Yoshizawa (Kyoto University), Dr. Daniel Mishori (Te...

Dr. Daniel Mishori, who is a professor at the Department of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, will be one of the keynote speakers in the forthcoming 15th Social Ethics Society Conference, to be held on February 6 & 7, 2025 at the Mergrande Resort in Davao City. The theme of the conference is Philosophical Perspectives on Mindanao. It will be hosted by North Valley College. To join the annual event as a presentor, send a 300-word abstract to the Scientific Committee. Please email your abstract as an attachment to this address: roger.bayod@gmail.com. The first deadline for the abstract submission is December 15, 2024.  Papers based on the following are welcome: Peace and Conflict Studies, Democracy and Poverty, Indigenous Cultures, Education and Human Development, Environmental Ethics and Ecology, Women and Inclusion, Public Health, and the Bangsamoro. The conference fee is 6,000 pesos, inclusive of room accommodation (shared), meals, kit, two books, and access to all sessions...

The Board of Directors of the Social Ethics Society will hold a meeting on December 15, 2024 in Davao City. The agenda include the forthcoming 15th SES Conference, the latest issue and indexing of the SES Journal, and evaluation and planning. Fr. Dexter Veloso, SES President, will preside the meeting.  The following are the SES Officials: Fr. Dexter Veloso (President), Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc (BOD Chair), Dr. Rogelio Bayod (VP), Dr. Moises Torrentira Jr. (Secretary), Fr. Urbano Pardillo Jr (Treasurer), Dr. Randy Tudy (Auditor), Dr. Ian Clark Parcon (PIO and Chief Editor, SES Journal), and Mr. Menelito Mansueto (BOD member). 

  Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, author of The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory, successfully held a Book Signing event at Balai Torrentira, Matina Town Square in Davao City on December 7, 2024. The event was sponsored by Dr. Moises Torrentira Jr., Fr. Dexter Veloso, and CEO Raymond Taopa. Academics, lawyers and former students of the author attended the event. The book is the second monograph of the author published by Elzystyle Publishing and distributed worldwide by Amazon. 

  "Mansueto's thinking is a positive energy released to empower scholars from the Philippine South who fight for liberation from an oligarchic intellectual conspiracy. I encourage my colleagues and students to read the works of SES local scholars such as Mansueto to be part of a movement that transforms stories of discrimination and injustice into safe spaces for productive philosophical discourses in Mindanao and beyond."  - Godiva C. Eviota-Rivera, Ph. D. --- Professor of Philosophy, Peace, and Language Studies, Mindanao State University-Main Campus  "In both practical and intellectual terms, the Western academia has assumed the predominant role in understanding human problems including, war, conflict, violence, poverty, sustainability, etc. Though many would think that colonialism is a past phenomenon, the remnants of colonialism and Eurocentrism affect us. It is critical to build intellectual framework based on each local contextual and critical...

  Decolonial Turn in the Philippine South, a book by Menelito Mansueto, has been released. Published by KDP in the United States, the book is a collection of essays by the young scholar from Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology. Consisting of five chapters, it discusses the radical turn of philosophical thinking in Mindanao, through the lenses of Miranda Fricker, Enrique Dussell, Chantal Mouffe, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The book also contains short essays, including his take on controversial issues like historical revisionism. It chronicles the new movement in the Philippines when it comes to philosophical thinking, one that started with the radical turn in the writings of scholars from Mindanao challenging convention and the traditional authors from the country's top universities.  Mansueto teaches Philosophy at MSU-IIT. He has also taught at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila, Far Eastern University - Diliman, the University of Santo Tomas, and...