Turkey, 1955
Thomas Harrison
Professor of Italian Literature
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.
Italy, 1887 - 1910
Carlo Michelstaedter
poet, painter, philosopher
Hungary, 1885 - 1971
György Lukács
Marxist literary critic and philosopher
Poland, 1945 - 2021
Adam Zagajewski
poet and essayist
The Netherlands, 1929 - 2008
Kees Fens
literary critic and writer
The Netherlands, 1914 - 2001
Marius Flothuis
composer and musicologist
Germany, 1945
Nike Wagner
great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner
United Kingdom, 1965
Lydia Goehr
art philosopher
Germany, 1937
Friedrich Dieckmann
German art scholar
United Kingdom, 1929 - 2003
Bernard Williams
moral philosopher
United Kingdom, 1944 - 2020
Roger Scruton
conservative philosopher and art expert
Czech Republic, 1931-2025
Ivan Klíma
Czech writer; his works were blacklisted under the communist regime
Italy, 1304 - 1374
Francesco Petrarca
poet, humanist
The Netherlands, 1934 - 2005
Frans van Dooren
translator
France, 1954
Sylvie Germain
writer
Israel, 1926 - 2009
Amos Elon
journalist
The Netherlands, 1950
Heikelien Verrijn Stuart
journalist, law scholar, writer
The Netherlands, 1936 - 2003
C.O. Jellema
poet and essayist
Belgium, 1971
David Janssens
philosopher
United States, 1935
Michael Walzer
political scientist and philosopher
Hungary, 1929 - 2016
Imre Kertész
writer, Nobel Prize winner
Italy, 1939
Claudio Magris
writer and expert on Mitteleuropa
Italy, 1798 - 1837
Giacomo Leopardi
writer and poet
Russia, 1947
Boris Groys
pioneer in the thought on postmodern and socialist art