France, 1871 - 1945
Paul Valéry
poet
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, 1952
Mitchell Cohen
author The Politics of Opera
United States, 1936
John Felstiner
English literature scholar, translator of Celan
United States
David Dubal
piano expert, teacher at Juilliard
United States, 1935
Robert Alter
literary scholar and Bible expert
United States, 1956
Mark Lilla
historian of ideas
United States
Marilyn McCully
Picasso expert
The Netherlands, 1955
Eric Moormann
classical archaeologist
Serbia, 1911 - 1995
Milovan Djilas
communist politican, dissident and writer
Greece, ca. 430 - 350
Xenophon
philosopher and historian
The Netherlands
Irene Groothedde
editor and translator
The Netherlands
Gerlof Janzen
translator and essayist
United Kingdom
Marina Mahler
granddaughter of Gustav Mahler
United States, 1944
Thomas L. Pangle
Plato translator and political philosopher
Germany, 1964
Anke Roder
artist
Germany, 1899 - 1973
Leo Strauss
neoconservative philosopher
Israel
Sabine Lichtenstein
musicologist
The Netherlands
Hanneke van Kempen
stimulates cultural participation
United States, 1897 - 1962
William Faulkner
novelist and Noble Prize laureate
Italy, 1939
Carlo Ginzburg
historian, son of Natalia and Leone Ginzburg
Canada, 1947
John Ralston Saul
writer and President of PEN International
United States, 1952
Andrew Delbanco
humanities scholar
The Netherlands, 1935
Anton Blok
anthropologist
United States, 1957
Alexander Stille
writer and journalist