United States, 1948
Adam Zamoyski
historian of Poland and Europe
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, 1960 - 2020
Atzo Nicolaï
liberal politician
Romania, 1951
Vladimir Tismaneanu
political theorist
Slovenia, 1961 - 2016
Aleš Debeljak
cultural critic
France, 1946
Marc Nichanian
Professor of Armenian literature
The Netherlands, 1920 - 2005
Andries van Dantzig
psychiatrist
United States, 1948
Peter Kramer
psychiatrist
Latvia, 1943
Modris Eksteins
historian
United States, 1945
Katherine Ashenburg
non-fiction writer
Italy, 1952
Maurizio Viroli
political philosopher
United Kingdom, 1944
Simon Blackburn
philosopher, meta-ethicist
Bulgaria, 1939 - 2017
Tzvetan Todorov
philosopher and historian of ideas
France, 1940
Gabriel Josipovici
British writer and academic
South Africa, 1952
Antjie Krog
South African poet and writer
Czech Republic, 1929 - 2023
Milan Kundera
Czech writer
Czech Republic, 1936 - 2011
Václav Havel
writer, dissident, politician
Germany, 1906 - 1949
Klaus Mann
writer, son of Thomas Mann
Hungary, 1900 - 1989
Sándor Márai
writer
United Kingdom, 1874 - 1965
Winston Churchill
statesman
Germany, 1875 - 1955
Thomas Mann
writer, Nobel Prize laureate
United Kingdom, 1882 - 1941
Virginia Woolf
modernist author
Scotland, 1955
John Leighton
museum director
Germany, 1864 - 1920
Max Weber
founding father of sociology
The Netherlands, 1970
Christien Roovers
editor