The Netherlands, 1740 - 1805
Belle van Zuylen
writer between Enlightenment and Romanticism
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 Kingdom, 1958
Steven Beller
Central Europe and Jewish history scholar
Germany, 1964
Michael Brenner
expert in modern Jewish history
Israel, 1939
Avishai Margalit
Israeli philosopher and author The Ethics of Memory
United Kingdom, 1949
Henry Hardy
editor of Isaiah Berlin
India, 1933
Amartya Sen
Nobel Prize winner and development economist
The Netherlands, 1952 - 2014
Willem Witteveen
legal scholar and Senator
United States, 1947
Martha Nussbaum
Belgium, 1957 - 2009
Patricia de Martelaere
philosopher and writerphilosopher and writer
Belgium, 1949
Donald Loose
philosopher and theologian
United States, 1941-2026
Allan Janik
at home in Wittgenstein’s Vienna
United States, 1957
Peter Sellars
theatre director
Germany, 1907 - 2001
Hans Mayer
literary scholar, musicologist
United States
Karen Rosenberg
writer
France, 1871 - 1922
Marcel Proust
fin de siècle writer
Poland, 1925 - 2017
Zygmunt Bauman
sociologist
Belgium, 1946
René Foqué
law scholar
Romania, 1932 - 2015
Myriam Yardeni
historian, specialized in early modern history
United States, 1956
Jonathan Boyarin
scholar of Judaism
United Kingdom, 1909 - 2006
William Montgomery Watt
scholar of Islam
United Kingdom, 1941
Noel O’Sullivan
political scientist
Belgium, 1958
Antoon Braeckman
philosopher
United States, 1949
Arthur Melzer
political theorist, Rousseau expert
Mandatory Palestine, 1935 - 2003
Edward Said
literary theorist and Palestinian activist