Speakers and authors

The journal Nexus was founded in 1991, the Nexus Institute three years later. Since then, a large number of international thinkers, artists, scholars and politicians have published in Nexus or taken part in one of the Institute’s activities. Below you find an overview of all our authors and speakers.

Germany, 1970

Philipp Blom

historian, novelist, journalist and translator

United Kingdom, 1949

David Abulafia

historian of the Mediterranean

United States, 1952

E.J. Dionne

Washington Post columnist

Germany, 1937

Christoph Bertram

journalist and political advisor

Austria, 1947 - 2011

Michael André Bernstein

literary scholar and writer

The Netherlands, 1947

Frank Wiering

VPRO executive

Czech Republic, 1928 - 2020

Antonín Liehm

journalist, film critic and film historian

Belgium, 1944

Derrick de Kerckhove

studies culture and technology

Austria, 1941 - 2022

Erhard Busek

former Vice-Chancellor of Austria

The Netherlands, 1944

Eveline Nikkels

president of the Dutch Gustav Mahler Foundation

The Netherlands, 1959

Josine Meurs

defends the interests of cultural audiences

Serbia, 1950 - 2011

Dragan Klaić

dramaturgist and cultural entrepreneur

United Kingdom, 1941

Graham Clark

opera singer

Germany, 1947

Peter Sloterdijk

cultural philosopher

United States, 1943

Richard Sennett

sociologist

Italy, 1941

Riccardo Petrella

political scientist, economist

Czech Republic, 1917 - 2003

Pavel Tigrid

writer and dissident

United Kingdom, 1962

Julian Reynolds

conductor, DNO

France, 1945

Bernard de Montferrand

diplomat

South Africa, 1951

Sarat Maharaj

art historian and theorist

The Netherlands, 1948

Ronald de Leeuw

former director Rijksmuseum

Poland, 1932 - 2008

Bronislaw Geremek

politician and historian