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.

The Netherlands, 1933 - 2012

Rudi van Dantzig

choreographer

United Kingdom, 1929

Al Alvarez

poet and critic

United States, 1964

Peter N. Miller

historian

United States, 1952

Richard Wolin

historian of ideas
A.S. Byatt

United States, 1936 – 2023

A.S. Byatt

writer

United States, 1953

Ingrid Rowland

art historian

France, 1913 - 2010

Jacqueline de Romilly

classicist

United Kingdom, 1956 - 2015

David Cesarani

historian and expert on the Holocaust

Romania, 1924 - 2011

Ilana Shmueli

poet and translator

Hungary, 1924 - 2008

Tibor Simányi

writer and historian

United States, 1947

Hillel Fradkin

scholar of Islam

Syria, 1944

Bassam Tibi

philosopher and political theorist

United States, 1940

Mark Juergensmeyer

expert on religious violence

United Kingdom, 1960

Anatol Lieven

journalist and policy analyst

Poland, 1940

Aleksander Smolar

political theorist

France, 1956

Gilles Andréani

French diplomat

The Netherlands, 1961

Ralf Bodelier

journalist

The Netherlands, 1963

Maxim Februari

columnist, philosopher, writer

Germany, 1940

Peter Schneider

cultural critic and novelist

The Netherlands, 1933-2025

Frits Bolkestein

liberal politician

Austria, 1929

Peter Pulzer

historian and political theorist