The file contains the minutes of the meeting (chairman: Bernard Pottier). Included are the agenda and working documents for the meeting including annual reports, minutes of meetings, programmes for seminars, notes on preparatory meetings, proposals by Antonio Zampolli, by Paolo Ramat, Claude Buridant, Johannes Bechert and Martis Harris, by H. L. Wesseling and P. C. Emmer. The file also includes the project for the ESF summer school in linguistics, the minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences (29-30/05/1985) and a paper concerning the project of a European University.

Topics discussed include: the present situation of research in the humanities in Portugal; membership of the committee; meetings with ESF board; additional activity on Comparative studies on governments and non-dominant ethnic groups in Europe (1850-1940); conferences on tropes and on information and documentation in the field of inquisition; witchcraft and criminology of early modern Europe; seminar on Nationalism and on Columbus’ discovery of America; archaeological research; projects by the ad hoc committee on computerised lexicography and a ESF summer school on linguistics; research project entitled ‘Towards a Synchronic and Diachronic Typology of Standard Average European’; proposals for the future; activities of the standing committee for the Social Sciences and developments of the European University.

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