The file contains the minutes of the meeting (chairman: Bernard Pottier). Included are the agenda and working documents for the meeting including a detailed description of the committee with the list of ESF member organisations concerning the humanities, annual report of the committee (1986), projects for the various sub-committees, minutes of the meetings, letters, proposals, notes for the meetings, conferences programmes, annual report of ESF networks and of additional activities, minutes of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences.

Topics discussed include: membership of the committee and renewal of the committee’s five year mandate; report of the policy group; report on the progresses of the new activities (The origin of a Modern State, Vocabulary of Intellectual Communication in the Middle Ages, European Medieval Historiography, History and Computing, The Dispersal of the Huguenots, Linguistic typology of European Languages, The nature and administration of Justice, Dictionary of Romance Family Names, The Running of Archaeology Institutes Overseas) and proposals by the Norwegian Research Council; organisation of events for 1987; ad hoc committee for computerised lexicography; ESF networks; additional activities (Ethnic groups, Byzantine studies and Chinese studies); activities of the SCSS.

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