Greece, ca. 430 - 350
Xenophon
philosopher and historian
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
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, 1939-2026
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
Canada, 1941 - 2009
Gerald Cohen
Marxist philosopher
Italy, 1941
Luisa Mangoni
historian
United Kingdom, 1965
James Wood
literary critic
Belgium, 1955
Kristien Hemmerechts
writer
Italy, 1916 - 1991
Natalia Ginzburg
writer
United Kingdom, 1949
Jacqueline Rose
writer and literary theorist
South Africa, 1940
John M. Coetzee
writer and Noble Prize laureate
The Netherlands, 1946 - 2004
Gerard Rasch
translator
South Africa, 1955
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
psychologist, member of Truth and Reconciliation Commission