Poland, 1925 - 2017
Zygmunt Bauman
sociologist
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.
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
The Netherlands, 1928 - 2017
Coen Stork
diplomat, former Dutch ambassador to Romania
Belgium, 1943
Paul Claes
writer and classical scholar
1944
Wasif Shadid
anthropologist
Belgium, 1923 - 2009
Christine D’haen
Flemish poet
The Netherlands, 1955
Marcel Poorthuis
theologian
The Netherlands, 1951
Gilles J. Dorleijn
Professor of Dutch Literature
The Netherlands, 1961
Joost van der Vleuten
Dutch literature expert
The Netherlands, 1943
Rudi van der Paardt
classical scholar and literary theorist
Saudi Arabia, 1933
Talal Asad
anthropologist
The Netherlands, 1921 - 2000
C. Reedijk
learned librarian
Austria, 1936 - 2008
G.A. von Winter
librarian
Belgium, 1942
Frans Boenders
art philosopher
The Netherlands, 1953
Bas van Stokkom
sociologist
The Netherlands, 1948
Henk Harbers
German literature scholar
France, 1927 - 2012
Gabriel Vahanian
theologian