Belgium, 1944
Derrick de Kerckhove
studies culture and technology
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.
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
The Netherlands, 1942 - 2007
Ad Geelhoed
top government official and law expert
The Netherlands, 1956
Hans Maarten van den Brink
writer and cultural policy maker
United States, 1933 - 2004
Susan Sontag
writer and philosopher
The Netherlands, 1950
Elmer Schönberger
author and composer
United Kingdom, 1924 – 2019
John Richardson
art historian, Picasso biographer
The Netherlands, 1961
Michel Krielaars
journalist, Russia specialist
United States, 1932
Peter Eisenman
architect
United States, 1951
Esther Dyson
information technologist
The Netherlands, 1951
Ian Buruma
observer and analyst of the Eastern and Western worlds