The file contains the minutes of the meeting (also handwritten) (chairman: Bengt Algot Sørensen), the attendance list, the agenda, notes for the chairman and the working documents linked to this meeting, including: notes, members’ list, curriculum vitae, minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences (07/02/1978), reports on activities, questionnaires, correspondences, proposals, budget.

Topics discussed include: Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting; matters not on the agenda (Human Migration, support for the Hardt Foundation);membership of the committee; activities of the SCSS; reports on recent activities of member organisations; questionnaire to member organisations; proposals for future activities (Chinese studies programme, Byzantine studies, computer assisted translation of European languages, research on the North Sea, the city and its influence from the 14th to the 18th century, cataloguing of manuscripts and a survey of European archives, European Documentation Centre on the Bible); information to the public.

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