Videos/Talks | Vivienne Matthies-Boon

Videos/Talks

23:03

On the Trauma of Long Covid

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Prof Dr Vivienne Matthies Boon over het ethisch en wetenschappelijk problematische bps model

In deze lezing beschrijft professor Matthies-Boon het BPS model (dat vaak gebruikt wordt in het kader van MECVS en PAIS), daarna geeft zij een uitleg waarom het BPS model wetenschappelijk gezien problematisch is, en als laatste licht zij toe waarom het BPS model ethisch problematisch is en tot zeer ernstig medisch ethisch kwaad geleid heeft.

10:15

Vivienne Matthies Boon Dimensions of Invisibililty

This lecture was part of a workshop on post-viral ethics hosted by Radboud University.

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Postviral Ethics - Tamar Sharon - On the Absence of Long Covid Solidarity

This presentation was delivered at Postviral Ethics, an event hosted by the Radboud Center for Philosophy and Society and the Post-COVID Netwerk Nederland.

18:09

Vivienne Matthies-Boon - Psychologisation

This lecture was part of a workshop on post-viral ethics hosted by Radboud University.

52:46

Vivienne Matthies-Boon, Losing the Ground of Hope: Abandonment, Despair and Suicide in long Covid

More information: https://longcovidconversations.mystrikingly.com/.

01:02:03

Including the Voices of Humans who Cannot Advocate for Themselves in the Discourse about PAIS

Round Table in collaboration with Anil van der Zee, Anne Vroegindeweij, prof. dr. Vivienne Matthies-Boon and others.

01:32:31

Trauma Herdacht: Politieke Onderdrukking en Filosofische Hulpeloosheid

Spreker: Vivienne Matthies-Boon Interviewer: Mathijs van de Sande Muzikant: Sam Cuppen en Joris Moore Moderator: Hannah de Roos 👇 Wat is trauma? Doorgaans beschouwen we trauma als het gevolg van choquerende of gewelddadige gebeurtenissen. Trauma is zo vooral iets dat individuele slachtoffers achtervolgt. Volgens Vivienne Matthies-Boon is die opvatting echter te beperkt. Op grond van haar ervaringen in het autoritaire regime van de Egyptische generaal Sisi, en met behulp van de filosofieën van Jürgen Habermas en Nancy Fraser, herdenkt zij trauma in politieke termen. Het trauma van politieke onderdrukten laat namelijk zien dat trauma niet zozeer het gevolg is van autoritaire onderdrukking maar behoort tot de essentie van politieke onderdrukking als machtsmiddel. We moeten trauma dan ook juist niet beschouwen als een individueel mentaal probleem. Trauma is een collectieve, politieke aangelegenheid. Trauma wordt daarmee ook een probleem van rechtvaardigheid en verantwoordelijkheid dat zijn maatschappelijke sporen nalaat. De vraag is dus ook: Hoe gaan wij om met de trauma’s van anderen? Hiermee werpt Matthies-Boon ook een ander licht op de ervaring van plaatsvervangend trauma, waarbij het gevoel van hulpeloosheid overheerst. Dit is het trauma van de getuige die in het aanzicht van politiek geweld – van de ultieme vernietiging van het leven – niet in staat is om te handelen maar alleen toekijkt. Vanavond staan we dan ook stil bij de hulpeloosheid die gepaard gaat met het trauma en de impact hiervan op ons politiek en filosofisch handelen. Na een lezing van Vivienne gaat Mathijs van de Sande met haar in gesprek. Sam Cuppen en Joris Moore maakten een lied voor dit café. Hannah de Roos modereert en legt de vragen uit het publiek aan de sprekers voor. Praat, kijk en luister mee tijdens deze editie van het Filosofisch Café. Vivienne Matthies-Boon is bijzonder hoogleraar Humanisme, Europa en Mondiale Rechtvaardigheid aan de Faculteit Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen van de Radboud Universiteit. Mathijs van de Sande is universitair docent Politieke en Praktische Filosofie aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. Zijn specialisaties zijn radicale democratie, anarchisme en feminisme. Teleromeo (Sam Cuppen) speelt in de bands Thaïti en Service, (Joris Moore) Sjors Roomijs is onderdeel van het gelegenheidsduo Snoerkat & Roomijs en speelt bas in Misprint. Glitterjunk maakte de video. Hannah de Roos is redacteur bij het Filosofisch Café Nijmegen Zonder entree-inkomsten en donaties kan het Filosofisch Café niet voortbestaan. Vandaar dat we iedere bijdrage hogelijk waarderen. Je kunt ons steunen op: https://www.filosofisch-cafe.nl/doneren-filosofisch-cafe/

List of talks

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