Public Outreach/Events
Event organisation
- 02/2025, Postviral Ethics conference – Radboud University, PCNN and RCPS, including interdisciplinary academics from Germany, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands including patient organisations Niet Hersteld and Kinderen met Long Covid, https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/events/postviral-ethics-rcps-pcnn - 11/2024 - 1/2025 Pediatric exchange Long Covid Netherlands and Germany, incl Kinder Ambulanzen in München, Bielefeld, Wesel and Amsterdam UMC, Radboud UMC, Utrecht UMC, Maastricht UMC and Erasmus UMC - 05/2024 German – Dutch Long Covid exchange: Cologne Long Covid Clinic for Adults and Wesel Clinic for Children, Dutch parties involved: Amsterdam UMC, Leiden UMC, Radboud UMC, Maastricht UMC, Erasmus UMC Postcovid.nl, LongCovid Nederland Kinderen met Long Covid - 11/2019 Egypt stability or Fragility? In co-operation with Amnesty International Egypt Desk and Netherlands office https://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/events/2019/11/egypt---stability-or-fragility.html) - 12/2019 Workshop at the Dutch Foreign Ministry - Gender, Economics and Foreign Affairs, The Hague - 06/2019 Lead organizer with Dr Andrea Teti – Critical Middle East Studies (CMES) - Panel 1: Egypt and the Politics of Critique, Critical Middle East Studies (CMES) - Panel 2: Fieldwork, Ethics and Critique, Critical Middle East Studies (CMES) - Panel 3: Conditions of critique(s), BRISMES annual conference, June 2019 - 06/2018 Lead organizer with Dr Una McGahern – Trauma in the Middle East Panel I: Silence and Testimony; Trauma in the Middle East II: Space, Mobility and Political Mobilisation, Trauma in the Middle East Panel III: Contesting Humanitarianism, BRISMES annual conference, June 2018 - 01/2018 Lead organizer with Ms Rahma Bavelaar– “On Giving Voice. Ethics in Research, Activism and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Egypt”, Anthropology Department, University of Amsterdam - 07/2013 Lead organizer - International Summer School on ‘Revolution and Democracy: Perspectives on the Arab Spring, Netherlands Flemish Institute, Cairo July 2013 in cooperation with the Free University of Amsterdam International Summer School on Transitional Justice and Democracy, University of Sousse, Tunisia - 08/2013 Funded by MATRA-ZUID (Dutch Embassy in Tunis), Rabbani Fund, Groningen University Fund and Faculty of Arts - 12/2012 Lead organizer - Strategic meeting “Alternative Development” – Development Support Centre, Cairo,Participants: Development Support Centre (DSC), Action Aid, Egyptian Centre for Socio-Economic Rights (ECSER), Training Centre for Development Cooperation (TCDC) (Tanzania). Arab Forum for Alternatives (AFA), Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), American University of Beirut (AUB), Palestinian Medical Relief Society, American University of Cairo (AUC), British University of Egypt (BUE) Lead organizer - Roundtable “Academy: Development Support Centre” – Development Support Centre, Cairo,Participants: Development Support Centre (DSC) , Action Aid, Egyptian Centre for Socio-Economic Rights (ECSER), Training Centre for Development Cooperation (TCDC) (Tanzania). Arab Forum for Alternatives (AFA), Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), American University of Beirut (AUB), Palestinian Medical Relief Society, American University of Cairo (AUC), British University Egypt (BUE) - 11/2012, Co-organizer - ‘Imagining Democracy: Arab Revolts, Asian Visions and Western Lessons’, IRIO anniversary conference, Participants: University of Ghent, Dutch Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Egyptian Embassy in the Netherlands, University of Abderdeen, University of Groningen, University of Islamabad, University of Koc - 09/2012 Lead Organizer - Arab Revolts: Continuity or Change? International Conference panel – Riots, Revolts and Revolution Conference, University of Brighton - 04/2012, Lead Organizer - ‘Global Perspectives on Habermas’, International Conference - Research in Ethics and Globalisation, organised with Dr Tom Bailey, University of Groningen - 09/2007 Lead Organizer -Habermas and Violence’ panel, organised with Dr Naomi Head, Fourth Annual Conference ‘Workshops in Political Theory’, 6-8 September 2007, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - 09/2006 The Various Forms of Cosmopolitanism in Political Theory’ panel, Third Annual Conference ‘Workshops in Political Theory’, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - 11/2005 ‘Cosmopolitanism: Past and Future’ international conference - November 2005, University of Liverpool, UK - 11/2004 ‘On the Idea of Europe’ panel- Postgraduate CANE Conference, Manchester University, UK
Postviral illness - public campaigning/outreach
Newspaper column by Martha Claes as a response to a my lecture on “Over klimaatverandering en de chronische postvirale realiteit: ontkenning van kwetsbaarheid? Socrates Summer School ISVW, leusden, 09/2024, https://www.trouw.nl/religie-filosofie/over-het-onderscheid-tussen-pech-en-onrecht~beafeab5/?referrer=https://www.google.nI Interview in Algemeen Dagblad, “In Duitsland is het erg om Long Covid te hebben, in Nederland de hel”, 17 February 2024, https://www.ad.nl/gezond/in-duitsland-is-het-erg-om-long-covid-te-hebben-in-nederland-is-het-de-hel~a618d813/ “The Trauma of Long Covid”, In a Nutshell Vox Podcast, Radboud University, https://open.spotify.com/episode/1uYjvkU2e5771F2QTpWyxK?si=egaZVr4nQIiTO9GOQsfmKw Interview in Hart van Nederland (Dutch national television) on Petition for Long Covid Outpatient Clinics Interview in NOS 6 en 8 uur journaal, 13 Februari 2022 Interview in NOS 6 and 8 O’clock National News, 30 December 2023 Interview in “Waar blijven de klinieken?”, NRC Handelsblad (Dutch National Newspaper), 18 Dec 2023 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/18/waar-blijven-de-klinieken-voor-long-covid-a4184704 Interview in KASSA episode “Laat Patienten niet in de kou staan” (Dutch national television programme) 9 December, https://www.bnnvara.nl/kassa/artikelen/pleidooi-laat-patienten-met-long-covid-niet-in-de-kou-staan Uit Isolatie: Samenleven Ondanks Corona (2022). See publications above. Bi-monthly meetings with the Covid department of the Dutch Ministry of Health (2022-2023) The Government Violates Human Rights with their Covid Strategy, Vox, Available at: https://www.voxweb.nl/english/the-government-violates-human-rights-with-their-covid-strategy Interview in NOS, “Genezen maar toch Ziek”, 23 December 2023, https://nos.nl/collectie/13919/artikel/2457736-genezen-maar-toch-ziek-de-vergeten-pandemie-van-long-covid POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT POSTVIRAL ILLNESS Meetings/correspondence with Dutch national politicians - Jimmy Dijk (SP), Julian Bushoff (PvdA), Nico Drost (CU), Mirjam Bikker (CU), Wieke Paulusma (D66), Fleur Agema (PVV), Henry Kramer (CDA) Meetings/correspondence with the Dutch Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, the Association of Pediatricians, the Federatie Medisch Specialisten, the Netherlands Federation of Medical Hospitals etc Ethical advisor to the patient groups Niet Hersteld (Not Recovered) (2023 - current) and Kinderen met Long Covid (KLC) (2023-2025)
Egypt/Middle East - public campaigning/outreach
„Es braucht in Syrien jetzt faire gerichtsprozesse, um den Teufelskreis der Gewalt zu stppen“ – Interview in Neue Zürchner Zeitung, 17 December 2024,https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/es-braucht-in-syrien-jetzt-faire-gerichtsprozesse-um-den-teufelskreis-der-gewalt-zu-stoppen-sagt-eine-expertin-fuer-politische-gewalt-und-trauma-ld.1862645 November 2022, Klimaattop dat geen boodschap heeft aan het milieu, Interview with NPO Radio 1 “Free Rami Sidky” International Campaign (May 2018 – May 2019). An UvA Political Science alumni was arbitrarily detained and severely tortured in Tora Prison in Egypt for a song he had no involvement in. I thus independently developed and carried out a (successful) international campaign to get him released. This campaign involved: - The international outreach to and coordination with human rights organisations, including Amnesty International (Egypt Desk and the Netherlands), Human Rights Watch, EuroMed Rights, Artists at Risk, amongst others - The lobbying of political institutions, including the Dutch Embassy in Egypt, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The German Embassy in Egypt, The United National Human Rights Commission, The UN Working group of Arbitrary Detention, the German Parliament, the Dutch Embassy in Cairo, German Parliament, Dutch parliament, European Commission, European Parliament, French parliament - The direct lobbying and negotiation with the political offices of the German Chancellor Merkel, the President Macron and President Trump. - Interviews and media outreach, including coverage in all the Dutch newspapers, in German, Italian and French presses. Television and radio outreach on NOS, NOP Radio 1, BNN Radio MAX, Hart van Nederland (https://www.hartvannederland.nl/nieuws/2019/oud-uva-student-rami-kwijnt-weg-in-egyptische-cel-voor-beledigen-egyptische-president/) - The coordination of an Action Week at the UvA (May 2019) with Amnesty International, gathering more than 43,000 signatures for his release - Matthies-Boon, Vivienne (2019) “Vivienne Matthies-Boon stond lijnrecht tegenover de Egyptische regering”, Folia 20 December 2019 - Matthies-Boon, Vivienne (2018) Hogedrukpan Egypte gaat eens ontploffen, Volkskrant 27 Maart 2018 In light of the Rami Sidky campaign, the University of Amsterdam awarded me with a: - “VIDEO PORTRAIT” at the Opening of the Academic Year 2019/2020: : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv0qyHkgbsI - VIVA400 NOMINATION (submitted by the University of Amsterdam in 2019) - Nomination of the “UVA-ER VAN HET JAAR”, University of Amsterdam 2019 - TEACHER OF THE YEAR Nomination, University of Amsterdam 2018, 2019
