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:20260604T082400 UID:euroseas-2026-human-rights-thought-from-southeast-asian-contexts-1 SUMMARY:Human rights thought from Southeast Asian contexts (1) LOCATION:Classroom NT-115 DESCRIPTION:The genealogy of human rights too often simply assumes that the story was written by Europeans, flowing like a river from “natural rights” through the French revolution to the sea of twentieth century human rights law. Human rights are under attack around the world, and much in need of f ostering. Yet rights promotion is hampered by a false notion that human rig hts are a Western invention or a Western imposition on the rest of the worl d. This belief is false. Where the rights of humans are under attack, right s advocates fight back, showing that human rights are indigenous to all par ts of the world, even while rights traditions are distinct in different reg ions. Human rights are a process, not a project – a notion borrowed from Ti morese thinker Jovito de Araújo. South and Southeast Asian constitution-mak ing was a parallel process with the writing of the UDHR. While remaining a US ally, the Philippines pushed the envelope on racism and rights and consi stently proved willing to challenge US opposition to human rights normsetti ng. Other examples abound. Timor-Leste’s human rights “scripts” (as Marisa Ramos Gonçalves calls them) were written transnationally and inspired peopl e in the West. Southeast Asian activists promoted new ideas of rights in th e 1993 Bangkok declaration. Other examples\nabound. This panel welcomes pap er proposals that examine Southeast Asian contributions to human rights tho ught and advocacy, generated from within the region, not imposed from outsi de. URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/human-rights-thought-from-southeast-asian-contexts DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260901T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260901T113000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T082400 UID:euroseas-2026-human-rights-thought-from-southeast-asian-contexts-2 SUMMARY:Human rights thought from Southeast Asian contexts (2) LOCATION:Classroom NT-115 DESCRIPTION:The genealogy of human rights too often simply assumes that the story was written by Europeans, flowing like a river from “natural rights” through the French revolution to the sea of twentieth century human rights law. Human rights are under attack around the world, and much in need of f ostering. Yet rights promotion is hampered by a false notion that human rig hts are a Western invention or a Western imposition on the rest of the worl d. This belief is false. Where the rights of humans are under attack, right s advocates fight back, showing that human rights are indigenous to all par ts of the world, even while rights traditions are distinct in different reg ions. Human rights are a process, not a project – a notion borrowed from Ti morese thinker Jovito de Araújo. South and Southeast Asian constitution-mak ing was a parallel process with the writing of the UDHR. While remaining a US ally, the Philippines pushed the envelope on racism and rights and consi stently proved willing to challenge US opposition to human rights normsetti ng. Other examples abound. Timor-Leste’s human rights “scripts” (as Marisa Ramos Gonçalves calls them) were written transnationally and inspired peopl e in the West. Southeast Asian activists promoted new ideas of rights in th e 1993 Bangkok declaration. Other examples\nabound. This panel welcomes pap er proposals that examine Southeast Asian contributions to human rights tho ught and advocacy, generated from within the region, not imposed from outsi de. URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/human-rights-thought-from-southeast-asian-contexts DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260901T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260901T133000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR