France, 1953
Georges Didi-Huberman
art historian and philosopher
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
Lisa Appignanesi
author, historian and former Chairwoman of the Freud Museum
Germany, 2001
Valentina Vapaux
author of Generation Z
Italy, 1969
Antonio Scurati
author of the bestselling novels on Mussolini
Hungary, 1977
László Nemes
Oscar winner for his movie Son of Saul
USA, 1962
Brian Greene
world-renowned scientist and co-founder of the World Science Festival
UK, 1950
Stephen Farthing
painter and art historian
France, 1966
Laurence des Cars
President and Director of the Louvre Museum
France, 1977
Emmanuel Macron
President of France
Albania, 1979
Lea Ypi
Professor of Political Theory and author of Free. Coming of Age at the End of History
USA, 1973
Zena Hitz
propagates the life of the mind
Ukraine, 1978
Oksana Forostyna
Ukrainian intellectual
Italy, 1956
Donatella Di Cesare
Italian-Jewish philosopher and pascifist
France, 1961
Nicolas Baverez
influential French public intellectual
Poland, 1963
Radek Sikorski
Polish politician and member of the European Parliament
United Kingdom, 1957
Ray Monk
Wittgenstein- and Oppenheimer-biographer en philosopher
Portugal, 1974
Bruno Maçães
geopolitical thinker
USA, 1963
Mary Beth Long
former CIA-spy and US Assistant Secretary of Defense
Hungary, 1954
László Krasznahorkai
prizewinning author and screenwrtier
United Kingdom, 1951
Lorraine Daston
historian of science
Russia, 1952
Alexey Bogantsev
United States, 1955
James Hankins
United States, 1964
William Deresiewicz
United States, 1946
Patti Smith
American cultural icon and singer