Prof. dr. Vivienne Matthies-Boon

Keynote: Over de rol van het BPS model in het epistemisch onrecht van PAIS patiënten, Q-uestion stichting voor mensen met Qkoorts, Vught, 14.06.2025. 

Invited lecture: Het BioPsychoSociale Model (BPS) : een Ethische Evaluatie, Luister naar ME bijeenkomst, MECVS vereniging   5/2025, Amersfoort. 5/2025. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgraUXaKO5E&feature=youtu.be and https://me-cvsvereniging.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/BPS-een-ethische-analyse-Vivienne-Matthies-Boon.pdf

Lecture: The BioPsychoSocial Model (BPS): A Critique, with Ms Chiara Silipigni, PCNN heidag, Leiden UMC, 5/2025

Invited response: Anti-ableism? A Response to Tom Angier, Radboud University, 4/2025                   

Invited lecture: Untouchable? Postviral Illness and Touch, a response, TACT seminar series, Paris Sorbonne, 4/2025

Invited lecture: On the Psychosocial Framing of Postviral Illness, National Long Covid Day, Virology Education, 3/2025

On Psychologisation: Philosophical Ethical Reflections, Postviral Ethics workshop, Radboud University, 02/2025

On Invisibility: Patient Narratives, Postviral Ethics workshop, Radboud University,02/2025

Invited Lecture: Speaking for… Long Covid patients, Long covid conversations, University of Amsterdam, 01/2025

Lecture “Zusammenfassung: Postvirale Ethik” - – Long Covid Kongress, organised by the German Ministery of Health and the Ärzte- und Ärztinnenverband, 25 November 2024, Berlin

Invited lecture: Postvirale Ethik: Oder eine Ethik der Langzeitfolgen – Long Covid Kongress, organised by the German Ministery of Health 

and the Ärzte- und Ärztinnenverband, 25 November 2024, Berlin

Invited lecture: Over klimaatverandering en de chronische postvirale realiteit: ontkenning van kwetsbaarheid? Socrates Summer School, ISVW, Leusden, 09/2024

Invited lecture: Losing the Ground of Hope: Abandonment, Despair and Suicide in Long Covid, Amsterdam Conversations on Long Covid: https://youtu.be/4sOZWnoq4BM?si=RDR5GcfeEEJIOUTp, 09/2024

Invited lecture - Long Covid: Onrecht en Medische Ethiek, PCNN conferentie, Leiden UMC, 08/2024

Invited: Long Covid Roundtable, C-Support Conference, 7 march 2024, Den Bosch, 03/2024

Invited lecture: Over Long Covid, Humanistisch Verbond, Online lecture for spiritual carers, 04/2024

Long Covid: Multilevelled Traumatisation, Covid and its Social Impacts conference, University of Sydney 05/2024

Invited lecture: On Long Covid Trauma: A Phenomenology, University of York (BSA mental health seminar), 04/2023

Roundtable, Social and Ethical Dimensions, Symposium Scientific Research on Post-Covid, C-Support, 03/2024

Living with the virus: an autoethnography of the traumatic experience of long COVID, The Social Impacts of Long Covid, an Online Symposium, UNSW Sydney, Australia,  03/2024

Review of Peter Verovsek “Habermas: A Public Intellectual”, University of Frankfurt, Germany, 02/2024

The Burden of Testimony in the Era of the Witness, Faculty Lecture with Gert Jan van der Heijden, Radboud University, 12/2023

On the Ethics of Long Covid Research - ZonMW “Long Covid Expertise Network” Workshops, Utrecht,10/2024

Perpetually Teetering On the Brink of Non-Existence: Sisi’s Politics of Death, Deutscher Orientalistentag, 09/2022

Trauma Herdacht: Politieke Onderdrukking en Filosofische Hulpeloosheid, Filosofisch Cafe Nijmegen, 10/2021

Breaking Intersubjectivity: Counter Revolutionary Trauma in Egypt, Faculty Lecture , Radboud University,10/2021

Invited Lecture “Jurgen Habermas”, AISSR Great Thinkers series, University of Amsterdam, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTIBWQipq5k&list=UUp9TAB9q5T3pxkwz4KLqF9A, 10/2020

“Trauma as Intersubjective Violence: Political Justice reconceived”, Screening Survivor Palestina, Ontmoet Palestina, LAB111, 02/2020

On Researcher Pain and Levinasian Self-Care: An Autoethnography of Vicarious Trauma in (Post)Revolutionary Egypt, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam,  12/2019

Invited keynote: Towards a Critical Trauma Studies, Gender, Trauma & Sexualities Violence Conference, Open Arab University, Amman, Jordan, 07/2019

Ethnographic Observations: Trauma and Political Activism in Egypt, MENA Prison Forum, Beirut, Lebanon, 05/2019

Trauma as Homelessness: A Critical Analysis, Arab Diaspora and Home-making in Exile workshop, Free University Berlin, 03/2019

On Egypt’s Traumatic Betrayal: From Revolutionary to Counter-Revolutionary Populism, IRCPL conference, Colombia, 03/2019

University, Amman, Jordan

On Researcher Pain: A Existential Account of a Political Scientist’s Vicarious Trauma in (Post)Revolutionary Egypt, BRISMES June, Kings College London, 06/2018

A Question of Faith? Rethinking the Role of Religion, Spirituality and the Transcendent in Humanitarian Trauma Interventions with Refugees, BRISMES June 2018, BRISMES Kings College London, 06/2018

“I can’t listen anymore”: Trauma, Wellbeing and the Politics of Not Listening in Egypt” – with Nel Vandekerckhove, BRISMES June 2018, Kings College London, 06/2018

Trauma as Counter-Revolutionary Praxis - On Giving Voice. Ethics in Research, Activism and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Egypt, Anthropology Department, University of Amsterdam, 01/2018

Keynote: De-pathologising Radicalisation: Towards Youth Political Participation and Mental Health, ActionAid conference on Youth in the MENA region, 11/2017                                 

A Crisis of God? Rethinking the role of Religion, Spirituality and the Transcendent Amongst Syrian refugees in Jordan, IRCPL conference, Colombia University, Amman, 11/2017

On the dangers of vicarious trauma: Personal Reflections on Fieldwork in Post-Revolutionary Egypt, BISA 2017, 6/2017

The Traumatic Effects of Egypt's Counterrevolution's Colonisation of the Lifeworld, BISA 2017, Brighton, United Kingdom,  6/2017

When Research Hurts the Researcher: An Authoethnographical Account of Vicarious Traumatisation in (Post)Revolutionary Egypt, Workshop Vulnerable representations of International Relations: Autoethnograhpic exploration of an emotive discipline?, BISA, Brighton, United Kingdom, 6/2017

Middle East Report: From Dictatorship to Democracy, De Balie, Amsterdam (https://vimeo.com/169759100 ) 06/2016

Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs: Sadat and Mubarak, De Balie, Amsterdam, 04/2016

The Political is Personal: Individual and Collective Trauma in (Post)Revolutionary Egypt, The Arab Uprising: Researching the Revolutions, CBRL British Institute in Amman, Jordan (https://soundcloud.com/cbrl_sound/arab-uprising-vivienne-matthies-boon),  09/2014

Invited speaker - “Neoliberalism and Political Violence: Egypt”, Development Support Centre, Cairo,12/2012

Paper “On Securitisation and Neoliberalisation: The Case of Egypt’, Insitute for Social History, University of Amsterdam,  10/2012

Paper ‘Towards a Critical Theory of Crony Capitalism in Egypt”, Arab Revolts: Continuity or Change?, Conference panel, Riots Revolts and Revolution conference, University of Brighton, (UK) 09/2012

Lecture ‘Media and Propaganda: Egypt and Tunisia’, Summer School on Transitional Justice and Democracy,University of Sousse, Tunisia,   08/2012

Paper ‘Towards a Critical Theory of the Arab Revolts: The Case of Egypt’, Dutch Flemish Institute Cairo  (NVIC), Egypt, 7 June 2012

Paper ‘Towards a Critical Theory of the Arab Spring’, Centre for Advanced Study of the Arab World, University of Durham, 

03/2012

Paper ‘What Counts as Terror: Comments on (Post) Mubarak’s Egypt’, After 9/11 The Politics of Terror and the Terror of Politics, University of Gent, 12 March 2012,                       

Paper 'Time to Change our 9/11 Perspective: Egypt's Military', Gerardus van der Leeuw Faculty organization, Department of Theology, University of Groningen 12 December 2011



Presentation 'The Arab Spring, and the Rise of Democratic Politics and the New Arab Citizen' - with Dr Roel Meijer (Clingendael) and Prof Evert van der Zweerde, Research and Ethics and Globalisation roundtable, 11/2011          

Paper 'Egypt, Bahrain and the Arab Spring', Young Democrats roundtable, Groningen, 11/2011

Paper on 'Democracy on Order: Egypt and the Arab Spring' at the Studium Generale, University of Twente, 11/2011

Paper on 'Sayyid Qutb and Theodor W Adorno: An Attempt at A Negative Dialectics" at the Multiple Modernities Conference at the Central European University conference, 09/2011

Paper on 'Exporting Democracy to the Middle East: Jürgen Habermas and the Neoconservatives" at the CAPPE, (Centre for Applied Philosophy Politics and Ethics)  Annual Conference in Brighton (UK), 09/2011

Paper ‘On the Dangers of Applying Discourse Ethics to Professional Ethics’, Professional Ethics conference, Texas A & M University Qatar,            06/2011

Invited Speaker ‘Ethics and Academic Integrity: A Mixed Bag?’, Texas A & M University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 04/2011

Invited Speaker ‘Is Torture Ever Justified? A Critique of the Ticking Bomb Argument’, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates,             04/2011

Paper ‘On the Need for an Empirical Ethics: A Critique of Habermas's Discourse Ethics’, ISA conference, Montreal, Canada, 03/2011

Invited Speaker - ‘The legitimacy of global institutions: A Hobbesian Perspective’ by Sylvie Loriaux,Workshop on Cosmopolitanism and Institutions, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 01/2010

Paper ‘Democracy without Learning Processes: A Critique of Discourse Ethics’, Problems of Democracy: Probing the Boundaries, 1st Global Conference, Prague, Czech Republic,  05/2010

Paper “Should We Recognise Violent Actors? Recognition theory and Islamic fundamentalism” 9th Global Conference: Violence - Probing the Boundaries, Salzburg, Austria, 03/2010

Paper “Non-Communication as Misrecognition? Habermas and Honneth on Islamic fundamentalism” The Politics of Misrecognition: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Bristol,   01/2010

Paper “Jürgen Habermas and Sayyid Qutb: On the Problem of Non-Communication”, Recognition and Conflict                       06/2009

 Resolution conference, Queens University Belfast

Paper “The War on Terror: From Violence to Communication?” Sociology seminar series, University of Surrey,  02/2009

Paper “The War on Terror: A Threat to Communicative Ethics?” – ESRC seminar series on ‘The Ethics of the War on Terror’, University of Leicester, 09/2009

Paper “Habermas’s Writings on Europe: Not Habermasian Enough?” – EuroEthos conference, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, 09/2008

Paper "Habermas’s Writings on Europe: Not Habermasian Enough? “ PIPS Research Seminar, University of  Surrey,11/2007

Paper “On the Problem of Thick and Thin in Habermas’s Writings on Europe”, ECREA Philosophy of Communication Conference, University of Surrey,11/2007

Paper “Habermas’s Writings on Europe: Including Otherness?”- Habermas and Violence panel, Fourth Annual Conference – Workshops for Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University, 09/2007

Paper "Habermas's writings on Europe: Inclusion of the Other?" Aliens and Nations: Citizenship, Sovereignty and Global Politics in the 21st Century, ALSP Conference, 04/2007

Paper ‘The Problem of Otherness in Habermas’s Cosmopolitanism’, The Various Forms of Cosmopolitanism panel, Third Annual Conference – Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University, 09/2006.

Paper 'The Struggle for a Cosmopolitan ‘We’: Europe's relation to Otherness', Cosmopolitanism; Past and Future workshop, University of Liverpool, 11/2005

Paper 'Europe as a Historical Projection; Europe and its Histories', co-presented with Gerard Delanty, Europe as Space and Time workshop, Villa Fonta, European University Institute, Florence (Italy), 10/2005

Paper ‘Cosmopolitan Encounters in the European Sphere’, workshop ‘Political Subjectivities in Globalising Structures’ at the Second Annual Conference ‘Workshops in Political Theory’, Manchester Metropolitan University, 09/2005

Paper ‘Searching for Social and Political Community in an Era of Europeanization’, University of Liverpool,  Department of Sociology Centenary Conference, 09/2005

Paper ‘Cosmopolitanism as a New Form of Utopia in the 21st Century’ - at the ‘Is There a Role for Utopia in Twenty-First Century Ideology?’ conference, Centre for Political Ideologies at the University of Sheffield, 06/2005

Paper ‘Towards a Recognition of Cosmopolitan Constellation(s) in Europe’ – at a Special Media Research Seminar, University of Leeds, Trinity and All Saints College, 03/2005

Paper ‘Europe as a Historical Projection’ - at the ‘Europe as Space and Time’ workshop, Centre for European Studies, University of Malmo (Sweden), 03/2005

Paper: EU and European Enlargement; the ambiguous relation to Otherness, Postgraduate CANE Conference, Department of Government, Manchester University, 11/2004