Cuba, 1923 - 1985
Italo Calvino
Italian writer
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.
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
Romania, 1933
Pierre Hassner
international relations expert
United States, 1955
Mark Anderson
Professor of German
Serbia, 1953
Aleksa Djilas
writes on Yugoslavian history and politics
United Kingdom, 1954
Kwame Anthony Appiah
cultural philosopher
The Netherlands, 1947
Cees Maris van Sandelingenambacht
philosopher of law
United States, 1928
Cynthia Ozick
her novels often deal with Jewish life in America
The Netherlands, 1956
David Rijser
classical scholar
Netherlands, 1915 - 2014
Leo Vroman
poet, writer, biologist
The Netherlands, 1931 - 2011
A.Th. Van Deursen
historian