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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.
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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.
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Philomena Johanna Maria Essed is a professor of Critical Race,Gender and Leadership Studies at Antioch University Yellow Springs,Ohio.
Monika Triest is a Belgian academic,writer,and civil rights activist. After earning a degree in classical philology at Ghent University,she moved to Canada to teach at the University of New Brunswick in 1965. Three years later when she moved to Yellow Springs,Ohio to teach at Antioch College,Triest became involved in the civil rights and women's liberation movements in the United States. She participated in demonstrations against the Vietnam War and in favor of Roe v. Wade. While she was earning her PhD at the University of Cincinnati,she and Sylvia Tucker offered one of the first women's study courses at the university in 1971. After earning her PhD in 1976,Triest returned to Belgium and in 1985 became the first chair of the women's studies program at the University of Amsterdam,and first women's studies professor in the Netherlands. She continued to teach at various educational facilities until her retirement in 2008.
