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, 1935

Georges Nivat

specialist in Russian dissident literature

The Netherlands, 1952

Hein van Oorschot

executive officer

Germany, 1940

Claus Offe

political sociologist

Austria, 1953

Konrad Paul Liessmann

philosopher and essayist

United Kingdom, 1950

Alison Wolf

economist, educational advisor

United States, 1958

David Steiner

education commissioner

The Netherlands, 1952

Louise Fresco

agronomist, author

Poland, 1923 - 2010

Shmuel Eisenstadt

sociologist

Sweden, 1968

Fredrik Ullén

pianist and neuroscientist

The Netherlands, 1970

Micha Hamel

composer, conductor and poet

Poland, 1970

Tomasz Różycki

poet and translator

Israel, 1967

Hania Bitar

zet zich in voor jeugdmedia in de bezette Palestijnse Gebieden

The Netherlands, 1982

Rob Wijnberg

philosopher, general editor of nrc.next

Norway, 1979

Johan Harstad

young Norwegian writer

Denmark, 1967

Andreas Roepstorff

anthropologist in neuroscience

The Netherlands, 1983

Jonathan van het Reve

wrote a novel, columns and a cookbook

The Netherlands, 1972

Ilse Frech

young Dutch photographer

United States, 1968

Susan Searls Giroux

cultural scholar and advocate of the improvement of higher education

Belgium, 1977

Bert de Muynck

architect and urban developer

The Netherlands, 1975

Astrid Bussink

director and filmmaker

Israel, 1969

Emanuel Gat

dancer and choreographer

The Netherlands, 1978

Ralph van Raat

musician and music theorist

United Kingdom, 1970

Naema Tahir

writer and lawyer who advocates the emancipation of Muslim women