Germany, 1892 - 1968
Erwin Panofsky
twentieth-century art historian and pioneer of iconology
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.
Australia, 1938 - 2012
Robert Hughes
controversial art critic
France, 1949
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
diplomat and former UN Under-Secretary-General
Germany, 1948
Karl Schlögel
Eastern Europe expert
South Africa, 1942
Steven E. Aschheim
historian
Italy, 1960
Vittorio Hösle
moral and political philosopher
Switzerland, 1959
Carlos Franz
Chilean writer and cultural attaché
United States, 1958
Lorraine Smith Pangle
historian
United States, 1965
Stanislao Pugliese
historian
Romania, 1943
Moshe Idel
expert on Jewish mysticism
United Kingdom, 1942
Nicholas Mann
involved with the intellectual life of Europe as a writer and a policy maker
Spain, 1947
Juan Ángel Vela del Campo
Spanish music critic and journalist
Germany, 1943
Paul Michael Lützeler
Hermann Broch expert
United Kingdom, 1946
Jonathan Israel
Enlightenment historian
France, 1952
Jean-Louis Chrétien
philosopher, theologist, poet
United States, 1951
Jed Perl
art critic
Germany, 1929
Jürgen Habermas
philosopher and sociologist
Poland, 1946
Adam Michnik
former Polish dissident, general editor of the Gazeta Wyborcza
Italy, 1945
Daniela Bini
expert on nineteenth-century Italian literature
Italy, 1942
Benedetta Craveri
daughter of Benedetto Croce, specialized in French literature
Italy, 1933 - 2017
Ugo Dotti
Petrarch expert
Algeria, 1941 - 2014
Jean-François Mattéi
political philosopher
Spain, 1947
Fernando Savater
Spanish thinker
United States, 1930
Lewis Lockwood
musicologist, Beethoven expert