Austria, 1880 - 1942
Robert Musil
writer
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.
Austria, 1881 - 1942
Stefan Zweig
writer
Spain, 1951 – 2022
Javier Marías
writer
Jan Leyers
Italy, 1891 - 1962
Francesco Flora
literary critic
Spain, 1941
Plácido Domingo
opera singer and conductor
Greece, 1939
George B. Dertilis
historian
United Kingdom, 1938-2022
Costa Carras
philosopher, classicist and businessman
Belgium, 1954
Koen Lenaerts
president of the European Court of Justice
Syria, 1947
Aziz Al-Azmeh
historian
Bulgaria, 1965
Ivan Krastev
political scientist
Poland, 1926-2025
Marian Turski
Holocaust survivor, historian and founder POLIN Museum
Mauritania, 1961
Abderrahmane Sissako
award winning filmmaker
Germany, 1883 - 1969
Karl Jaspers
philosopher and psychiatrist
Poland, 1935 - 2020
Zeev Sternhell
historian and political scientist
Germany, 1966
Bettina Stangneth
philosopher and historian, expert on Eichmann
Czechoslovakia, 1932
Miroslav Hroch
historian
United States, 1954
Michael Shermer
professional skeptic
France, 1890 - 1978
Jean Guéhenno
European humanist
Egypt, 1946
Donald Sassoon
emeritus professor of comparative European history
United States, 1941
Robert D. Putnam
political scientist
United Kingdom, 1955
Timothy Garton Ash
historian and writer
Israel, 1939 - 2018
Amos Oz
writer
United Kingdom, 1954
John Haldane
philosopher and insider at the Vatican