The Study of Time II: Proceedings of the Second Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time Lake Yamanaka-Japan
J. T. Fraser & Nathaniel M. Lawrence (eds.)
Springer Verlag (1975)
Abstract
The Second Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time was held at Hotel Mt. Fuji, near Lake Yamanaka, Japan, on July I to 7,1973. The present volume is the proceedings at that Con ference and constitutes the second volume in The Study of Time series. * At the closing session of our First Conference in Oberwolfach, Germany, in 1969, I was honored by being elected to the Presidency of the Society, following Dr. J. G. Whitrow, our fIrst President. My mandate was to organize a Second Conference, consistent with the aim of the Society, which is the holding of interdisciplinary conferences for the presentation and discussion of papers on various as pects of time. Several participants expressed to me their wish to have a second conference held in Japan so as to emphasize the international and intercultural dedication of this Society. Dr. Fraser carefully evaluated this and many other suggestions, weighed the possible conference sites and our chances of raising the necessary funds to convene a meeting at such sites, and concurred with my conclusions that we should go ahead with the plans for a Japanese meeting. For the difficult and complicated task of raising funds and organizing a conference in Japan, I had to select and rely heavily on somebody both capable and reliable and also living in Japan. Thus, I asked the Reverend Michael Mutsuo Yanase, S. J.Reprint years
2012
ISBN(s)
3642501230 3540073213 9783642501234
DOI
10.1086/288806
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Chapters
International Society for the Study of Time, Second World Conference Piero E. Ariotti, Verrazzano College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA Seth G. Atwood, The Time Museum, Rockford, Illinois, USA Silvio E. Bedini, Smithsonian Institution, The National Museum of History and Technology. [REVIEW]Norio Fujisawa, Kyoto Sakyo & Japan James J. Gibson
Time structuring and time measurement: on the interrelation between timekeepers and social time.Helga Nowotny
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