The file contains the minutes (also handwritten) of the meeting (chairman: Bengt Algot Sørensen). Included are the agenda and working documents for the meeting including reports on activities, research projects, correspondence, minutes of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences meeting (04/07/1979), proposals and budgets for additional activities, papers, the published essay ‘L’inquisition espagnole, XV-XIX siècle’ by Bartolomé Bennassar, minutes of the ad hoc committee on archaeology (11-12 April 1979) and list of the members of the ad hoc Committee on the ‘Use of Personal Data for Research Purposes’, the proposed members of the Steering Committee in Byzantine studies.

Topics discussed include: membership of the Committee; recent activities of the member organisations (National Hellenic Research Foundation and Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities); activities of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences; proposals for additional activity on Migration studies; on-going activities (use of the archives, the documentation centres for the Humanities, the production of dictionaries, the research on linguistics, the inquisition studies, the establishment of a sub-committee on archaeology); annual report of the committee to the ESF Assembly.

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