Greece, 460 - 400
Thucydides
historiographer and army general
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, 1941 - 2010
Richard Holbrooke
peace broker in Bosnia
The Netherlands, 1946 – 2023
Wim Kayzer
writer and documentary filmmaker
South Africa, 1935
Albie Sachs
anti-apartheid activist, lawyer and judge
United Kingdom, 1943
Robin Holloway
neo-romantic composer
United Kingdom, 1930 - 2019
Bryan Magee
philosopher, politician and broadcaster
Italy
Laura Bossi
neuroscientist
USA, 1952
Leon Wieseltier
Jewish American liberal and editor of Liberties
United States, 1952
Paul W. Kahn
professor of law and humanities at Yale
Cuba, 1923 - 1985
Italo Calvino
Italian writer
Poland, 1943 - 2020
Wojciech Karpinski
historian of ideas, art historian, literary critic, translator
Italy, 1905 - 1972
Nicola Chiaromonte
antifascist activist and intellectual
Russia, 1951
Tatyana Tolstaya
writer from the Tolstoy family
United States, 1924 - 2013
Arthur Danto
art philosopher
France, 1940
Jean Clair
museum director
United States
Sarah Rothenberg
pianist, writes on music and culture
Czech Republic, 1949
Scarlet Nikolska
painter
Poland, 1947
Karol Berger
author Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche
United Kingdom, 1925 - 2017
Donald Mitchell
musicologist who specializes in Mahler and Britten
Netherlands, 1928 - 2009
Joop Doorman
philosopher
India, 1949
Homi Bhabha
known for his postcolonial theories
The Netherlands, 1954
René Boomkens
cultural scholar and policy maker
United States, 1942
Robert Boyers
humanities scholar and author
Israel, 1956
Samuel Brussell
writer and publisher