The file contains the minutes of the meeting (chairman: Hermann Fillitz). Included are the agenda and working documents for the meeting, including list of members, curriculum vitae, brochure, letters, minutes, tables of contents, reports, proposals, conference programme, lecture transcription, presentation.

Topics discussed include: membership of the committee; Core group meeting in London (17/3/1989); Brochure on the Humanities Committee; News from other Organisations; activities of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences; reports on the scientific programmes (Governments and non-dominant Ethnic groups in Europe (1850-1940); The Origins of the Modern State in Europe; Language Typology); networks (History of European Expansion, History of Science, Code-switching and Language contact, Economic History of Europe between the Wars); workshops and conferences; a lecture by Robert Rowland ("New Questions and New Methods in Historical Research – A new "Métier d’Historien"?"); presentation of Humanities research in the United States; series of workshops on early housing strategies; progresses on other activities.

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