International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime



The Society will be organizing biennial conferences at which the progress in the research on the ontology and nature of spacetime will be reported.


Future Conference: Sixth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime - 11-14 May 2020


Past Conferences:

Fifth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime - 14-17 May 2018

Fourth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime - May 30 - June 2, 2016

Third International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime was held at Concordia University on June 13-15, 2008. It commemorated the one hundredth anniversary of Minkowski's talk "Space and Time" given on September 21, 1908.

Second International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime was held at Concordia University, Montreal, on June 9-11, 2006.

First International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime was held at Concordia University, Montreal, on May 11-14, 2004.