The International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) is an interdisciplinary organization of professional scientists, humanists, and artists.
Many (but by no means all) discussions within ISST revolve around fundamental questions such as: Pursuing its mission to foster the interdisciplinary study of time, the ISST produces two peer-reviewed publications in association with Brill Publishers: a journal, KronoScope,[3] and a series of volumes, The Study of Time,[4] comprising papers selected from triennial conferences.
The first officers were Gerald James Whitrow, University of London-Mathematics (President); Julius Thomas Fraser, The Study of Time (Secretary); M. Satoshi Watanabe, Yale University-Physics (Treasurer).
The passage of time has been of concern to all great religions and philosophies, and has found an infinite variety of expressions in the arts.
Although multidisciplinary, panels of speakers are clustered into thematic groupings, and plenty of time is left for questions and an exchange of views.