Brigitte Herremans

Short Bio

Brigitte Herremans is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. She is part of the inter-institutional multidisciplinary iBOF project “Future-proofing human rights: Developing thicker forms of accountability”. She examines the relation between arts and accountability in the Syrian and Palestinian contexts.

In her doctoral research project, Brigitte investigated the potential of artistic practices to counter the erasure and invisibilisation of injustices and to ‘open up’ the justice imagination in the Syrian context. Her main research interests are Syria, the Palestinian-Israeli question, (transitional) justice efforts, accountability, and literature.

Brigitte studied Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ghent University and International Relations at l’Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Featured Publications

• Herremans, B., & Bellintani, V. (2023). Overcoming the justice impasse in Syria. In T. Destrooper, L. E. Gissel, & K. B. Carlson (Eds.), Transitional justice in aparadigmatic contexts : accountability, recognition and disruption.
• Herremans, B., & Destrooper, T. (2023). Moving beyond formal truth practices and forensic truth in the Syrian conflict : how informal truth practices contribute to thicker understandings of truth, Journal of Social and Legal Studies.
• Herremans, B., & Destrooper, T. (2021). Stirring the justice imagination : countering the invisibilization and erasure of Syrian victims’ justice narratives, International Journal of Transitional Justice.