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.

United States, 1942

Jack Miles

won the Pulitzer Prize for 'God. A Biography'

The Netherlands, 1946

Hans Abbing

economist and artist

Bosnia, 1976

Šejla Kamerić

video artist and photographer

The Netherlands, 1971

Arnon Grunberg

Dutch writer

United Kingdom, 1956

Paul Gilroy

sociologist who writes on race, discrimination and culture

France, 1932 - 2020

Marc Fumaroli

cultural historian, specialized in rhetoric

United States, 1965

Darrin McMahon

historiographer of happiness

United States, 1879 - 1970

Joseph Wood Krutch

natural philosopher, drama critic

United Kingdom, 1932

Alastair Hannay

Kierkegaard biographer

United Kingdom, 1879 - 1970

E.M. Forster

author of 'Howards End' and 'A Passage to India'

Slovakia, 1882 - 196

Leo Kestenberg

pianist and musical educator

The Netherlands, 1975

Mischa Spel

music journalist
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France, 1951

Luc Ferry

philosopher, former French Minister of Education

Belgium, 1943

Chantal Mouffe

political theorist

The Netherlands, 1946

Anna Tilroe

art critic

United States, 1959

John Seabrook

journalist

United States, 1939

Ferdinand Mount

conservative writer and columnist

United Kingdom, 1940

Robin Blackburn

socialist historian

United States, 1941 - 2013

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Catholic political philosopher