The ISST is happy to announce the keynote speakers of the 2026 Conference in Cagliari, Sardinia. Elise Crull and Barbara Adam have accepted our invitation and confirmed giving one keynote speech each.

Barbara Adam (Dept. of Sociology, Cardiff University), Prof. em., has been rewarded with the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize from the British Sociological Association (1991), the JT Fraser Prize from the ISST (1995), and honoured as Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (2009). Publications include:
Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time
Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards

Elise Crull (Dept. of Philosophy, City College of New York), PhD, has held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Aberdeen and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, conducting research into the historical and philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics. In addition to history and philosophy of science, Crull frequently ponders (sometimes aloud in front of audiences) philosophical problems associated with quantum theory: the quantum-to-classical transition, quantizing gravity, understanding quantum causal models, the metaphysical nature of entanglement (including temporal entanglement!) and, as of late, interpreting the alternate quantum formalisms used in quantum computing.  Publications include:
The Einstein Paradox: The Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935
Grete Hermann: Between Physics and Philosophy