The Netherlands, 1978
Wende Snijders
Dutch singer of French chansons
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.
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
Netherlands, 1947
Gijs Schreuders
journalist who turned his back on communism
United Kingdom, 1947
Richard J. Evans
expert in modern German history
The Netherlands, 1957
Maarten Asscher
publisher, bookshop owner, writer and translator
Mexico, 1970
Alain-Paul Mallard
Mexican filmmaker
Austria, 1937
Walter Methlagl
Kierkegaard expert
United States, 1945
Anthony Kronman
law professor and advocate of the classic liberal arts education
Germany, 1938
Heinrich August Winkler
writes the history of the West in the twentieth century
Mexico, 1947
Enrique Krauze
editor and historian
Spain, 1883 - 1955
José Ortega y Gasset
Spanish philosopher, author of 'The Revolt of the Masses'