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Monique Deveaux, a global ethics professor at the University of Guelph in Canada, was scheduled to speak on a panel with Pogge at a conference in Belgium in fall 2015. She decided she would still speak, but make a point to bring up the issue of sexual harassment and gender inequalities.
“For some people that’s too subtle,” Deveaux said. “I don’t know how many people understood what was going on.”
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Many faculty have turned to shunning as a strategy of dealing with Pogge, Deveaux said.
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