BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2026//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2026 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Madrid X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Madrid BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T082600 UID:euroseas-2026-democratic-regression-and-participatory-futures-in-contemporary-southeast-asia-1 SUMMARY:Democratic Regression and Participatory Futures in Contemporary Southeast Asia (1) LOCATION:Sala Mari Luz Nájera DESCRIPTION:This double-session joint panel explores the contemporary crise s of democracy in Southeast Asia by integrating comparative political analy ses with critical reflections on societal participation and engagement in ( re) claiming and building democracy. Against the backdrop of global democra tic regression and crises, the panel brings together scholars working on In donesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines to explore how democratic erosion unfolds through institutional weakening, elite capture, political v iolence, and recurring leadership crises. While these developments are wide ly acknowledged, their trajectories and implications for democratic futures in the region remain uncertain and unevenly theorized.\n\nThe first sessio n focuses on diagnosing democratic regression through comparative and count ry specific perspectives. It situates Southeast Asian experiences within br oader debates on autocratization and regime change, highlighting how histor ical legacies, political institutions, and elite strategies shape divergent democratic pathways. By foregrounding both common patterns and country spe cific factors and trajectories, the session seeks to refine regional and co mparative understandings of democratic regression and autocratic revival.\n \nThe second session shifts the analytical lens from diagnosis to imaginati on and reconstruction, asking who has the authority to define political and social futures amid democratic erosion. Drawing on participatory research, narrative inquiry, decolonial thought, and grassroots foresight practices, it interrogates how technocratic and elite-driven visions of the future ma rginalize popular participation. Through a transregional dialogue between S outheast Asia and Europe, the session explores how communities, scholars, a nd practitioners can reclaim future-making through a democratic and inclusi ve process, engagement and dialogue.\n\nTaken together, the double-session panels intend to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue and engagement to se arch fresh and critical approaches to investigate young democracy’s traject ories and futures. By combining comparative political analyses with partici patory social approach, we will demonstrate that democratic regression shou ld be better understood not only as an institutional or electoral phenomeno n, but also an epistemic and imaginative one. URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/democratic-regression-and-participatory-futures-in-contemporary-southeast-asia DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260901T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260901T113000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T082600 UID:euroseas-2026-democratic-regression-and-participatory-futures-in-contemporary-southeast-asia-2 SUMMARY:Democratic Regression and Participatory Futures in Contemporary Southeast Asia (2) LOCATION:Sala Mari Luz Nájera DESCRIPTION:This double-session joint panel explores the contemporary crise s of democracy in Southeast Asia by integrating comparative political analy ses with critical reflections on societal participation and engagement in ( re) claiming and building democracy. Against the backdrop of global democra tic regression and crises, the panel brings together scholars working on In donesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines to explore how democratic erosion unfolds through institutional weakening, elite capture, political v iolence, and recurring leadership crises. While these developments are wide ly acknowledged, their trajectories and implications for democratic futures in the region remain uncertain and unevenly theorized.\n\nThe first sessio n focuses on diagnosing democratic regression through comparative and count ry specific perspectives. It situates Southeast Asian experiences within br oader debates on autocratization and regime change, highlighting how histor ical legacies, political institutions, and elite strategies shape divergent democratic pathways. By foregrounding both common patterns and country spe cific factors and trajectories, the session seeks to refine regional and co mparative understandings of democratic regression and autocratic revival.\n \nThe second session shifts the analytical lens from diagnosis to imaginati on and reconstruction, asking who has the authority to define political and social futures amid democratic erosion. Drawing on participatory research, narrative inquiry, decolonial thought, and grassroots foresight practices, it interrogates how technocratic and elite-driven visions of the future ma rginalize popular participation. Through a transregional dialogue between S outheast Asia and Europe, the session explores how communities, scholars, a nd practitioners can reclaim future-making through a democratic and inclusi ve process, engagement and dialogue.\n\nTaken together, the double-session panels intend to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue and engagement to se arch fresh and critical approaches to investigate young democracy’s traject ories and futures. By combining comparative political analyses with partici patory social approach, we will demonstrate that democratic regression shou ld be better understood not only as an institutional or electoral phenomeno n, but also an epistemic and imaginative one. URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/democratic-regression-and-participatory-futures-in-contemporary-southeast-asia DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260901T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260901T133000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR