Czech Republic, 1931-2025
Ivan Klíma
Czech writer; his works were blacklisted under the communist regime
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, 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
Italy, 1923 - 1977
Cristina Campo
poet, essayist, translator
United States, 1956
Clare Cavanagh
scholar of Slavic literature
Italy, 1941 – 2021
Roberto Calasso
writer and publisher at Adelphi
The Netherlands, 1936
Theo van de Klundert
economist
United States, 1939 - 2017
Benjamin Barber
political scientist
Germany, 1920 - 2015
Richard von Weizsäcker
former German President
Austria, 1902 - 1994
Karl Popper
prominent twentieth-century philosopher of science
United States, 1938 - 1993
John Condry
developmental psychologist
France, 1933
Paul Thibaud
philosopher and journalist
France, 1949
Alain Finkielkraut
philosopher, cultural pessimist
Poland, 1945
Eva Hoffman
writer and professor of creative writing