Ireland, 1957
Maggie Doyle
literary agent
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.
Mexico, 1969
Ricardo Cayuela Gally
writer
The Netherlands, 1938
Ernst van de Wetering
Rembrandt specialist
Germany, 1962
Thomas Rathnow
publisher
United States, 1960
John Donatich
director of Yale University Press
The Netherlands, 1946
Geert Corstens
former President of the Dutch Supreme Court
Netherlands, 1959 - 2016
Wim Brands
poet, TV and radio presenter
United States, 1957 - 2016
Adina Hoffman
writes about the daily impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
United States, 1971
Charmaine Craig
writer
The Netherlands, 1978
Wende Snijders
Dutch singer of French chansons
France, 1969
Noga Arikha
historian of ideas
South Africa, 1953
Marlene Dumas
artist
Indonesia, 1934 - 2022
Eric Schneider
theatre actor
Zimbabwe, 1950
Robert Baldock
publisher, Yale University Press
Russia, 1964
Nina Khrushcheva
Nabokov expert; descendant of Soviet leader
United States, 1964
Anne Applebaum
historian and author Gulag: A History
United States
Marc Sageman
expert on terrorism
Iran
Ladan Boroumand
human rights advocate
Switzerland, 1962
Tariq Ramadan
Muslim thinker and scholar
Slovenia, 1949
Slavoj Žižek
polemical philosopher, sociologist and cultural critic
United States, 1946 - 2011
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
psychoanalyst, biographer of Hannah Arendt
United Kingdom, 1948 - 2020
Jonathan Sacks
Chief Rabbi
Canada, 1971
Candis Callison
media scientist
United States
Barry Gewen
editor of The New York Times Book Review