The file contains the minutes of the meeting (chairman: Bernard Pottier). Included are the agenda and working documents for the meeting including the annual reports of the Tao-Tsang project (1983/1984), minutes of meetings, conference programme, correspondence, the Humanities Communication Newsletter published by the University of Leicester, minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences (28-29/06/984).

Topics discussed include: the characteristics of the structure supporting humanistic research in Belgium; membership of the committee; additional activities (Byzantine studies, Chinese studies, Comparative studies on governments and non-dominant ethnic groups in Europe (1850-1940); the ESF summer school for archaeologists and proposals for future initiatives following the decision not to renew the mandate of the sub-committee for Archaeology; activities of the ad hoc committee on computer and dictionaries; the organisation of the conferences and the seminars (series of four conferences on tropes, colloquium on Biblical studies, colloquium on Nationalism) and the future colloquium on Columbus’s discovery of America; proposals for collaboration between the ESF and the office of the Humanities Communication at the University of Leicester; other future proposals and undertakings; the activities of the standing committee for the Social Sciences.

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