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Tom Lanoye was born on 27 August 1958 in the Belgian city Sint Niklaas. He is a novelist,poet,columnist,screenwriter and playwright. He is one of the most widely read and honoured authors in his language area,and makes regular appearances at all the major European theatre festivals.
Leo Apostel was a Belgian philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities.
Christine,Baroness Van den Wyngaert is a Belgian jurist and judge. She served as international and comparative criminal law expert from 2009 to 2018 as a judge on the International Criminal Court. She served in the Trial Division Chamber. On 8 July 2013,Van den Wyngaert was ennobled by King Albert II of Belgium as a baroness for her services as a judge. From 2003 to 2005 she was a Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,and from 2000 to 2002 an ad hoc judge on the International Court of Justice.
Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian writer. He was head of a study centre at University College Ghent and affiliated researcher of the Ghent University. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2002 for the novel Als op de eerste dag.
The Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord is a symbolic award created in 1951 by Herman Teirlinck and the editorial team of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift to counteract ideologically driven restrictions on the freedom of expression.
Patricia De Martelaere was a Flemish philosopher,professor,author and essayist. Born in Zottegem,Belgium,her full name was Patricia Marie Madeleine Godelieve. She graduated in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven and then taught and lectured there and at the Catholic University of Brussels.
The Francization of Brussels refers to the evolution,over the past two centuries,of this historically Dutch-speaking city into one where French has become the majority language and lingua franca. The main cause of this transition was the rapid,yet non-compulsory assimilation of the Flemish population,amplified by immigration from France and Wallonia.
Els,Baroness Witte is a Belgian historian. She was professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and honorary rector of the university. Els Witte was the first female rector of a Belgian university. She was a member of the Coudenberg group,a Belgian federalist think tank.
James Carleton Kennedy is an American historian. He is the son of E.W. (Bill) and Nella Kennedy. The elder Dr. Kennedy was for years an eminent professor of religion at Northwestern College (Iowa).
Gabrielle Alina Eugenia Maria Petit was a Belgian spy who worked for the British Secret Service in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. She was executed in 1916,and was widely celebrated as a Belgian national heroine after the war's end.
Johan Pieter Snapper,is emeritus Queen Beatrix Professor of Dutch Language,Literature and Culture at the University of California,Berkeley He is known as a literary critic and champion of Dutch culture in the United States. His current research is on the role of the Protestant churches in the Netherlands during WW II.
Ivo van Hove is a Belgian theatre director known as the artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam in the Netherlands and for his Off-Broadway avant-garde experimental theatre productions. On Broadway,he has directed revival productions of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge,and The Crucible,Lee Hall's Network in 2018,and Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story in 2020. Among his numerous awards he has received a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for A View from the Bridge. He was made a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 2004,and a Commander in the Order of the Crown in 2016.
Ludo Rocher (1926–2016) was an eminent Sanskrit scholar,and the W. Norman Brown Professor Emeritus of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Paul Bernard Cliteur is a Dutch professor of jurisprudence at Leiden University,as well as a politician,philosopher,writer,publicist and columnist. He is known for his conservative perspective,his atheism,his republicanism,and his dislike of Islam. He is a member of De Vrije Gedachte. Since 2015,Cliteur is a member of the Dutch political party Forum voor Democratie,where he is chairman of the advisory board and the party's official think tank. In 2019 he was elected to be parliamentary group leader for Forum voor Democratie in the Dutch Senate.
Sonja Smets is a Belgian and Dutch logician and epistemologist known for her work in belief revision and quantum logic. She is Professor of Logic and Epistemology at the University of Amsterdam,where she was the director of the Institute for Logic,Language and Computation (2016-2021) and is affiliated with both the Faculty of Science and the Department of Philosophy. She also holds a visiting professor position at the University of Bergen in Norway.
Sybe Schaap is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. He has been Senator since 12 July 2007 till 11 July 2019,doing water,agriculture,foreign affairs and European Union affairs. For example,he arranged a majority in favor of the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement in the Dutch parliament.
Horst Lademacher is a German historian specializing in the history of the Netherlands. He was a professor of modern history at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,University of Kassel and the University of Münster. At the latter institute he was also director of the Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien from 1990 to 2000.
Philomena Johanna Maria Essed is a professor of Critical Race,Gender and Leadership Studies at Antioch University Yellow Springs,Ohio.
Joke Swiebel is a Dutch policy analyst,writer,politician and activist. Since the 1960s,she has been involved with the feminist and LGBT movements. She was one of the coordinators of the first LGBT action in the Netherlands,a protest against a discriminatory law on sexual relations,held in January 1969. She served as first chair of the Federation of Student Working Groups on Homosexuality and on the board of the COC Nederland while a student. After earning her candidate degree in 1972 from the University of Amsterdam,she led the political science library at that institution until 1977. She was involved in the creation of the women's studies program at the university and worked to coordinate between activist groups to ensure that neither gender or sexual orientation were the basis for discriminatory policies.
