The file contains the minutes of the meeting (chairman: Bernard Pottier). Included are the agenda and working documents for the meeting, including reports on activities, minutes of meetings, the constitution of the European Association of Iranology, lists of scholars of countries member of the ESF, letters, budget of the additional activities (Chinese studies and Byzantine studies), minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences (10-11/12/1982).

Topics discussed include: membership of the Committee; additional activity in Byzantine studies and in Chinese studies; proposals for additional activity on ‘Ethnic Groups’; workshops on the Origins of European Nationalism, on Multinational Enterprises, on tropes and on Biblical Studies; ad hoc Committees on Iranology, on Computers and Dictionaries and on the Archives of intergovernmental organisations; the activity ‘Manuscripts and Technology’; future works of the Committee over the next five years; activities of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences and other ESF activities.

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