The file contains the minutes of the meeting (chairman: Wim Blockmans). Included are the agenda and working document for the meeting; including minutes; schedules; member list; curriculum vitae; reports; press clipping; correspondence; conferences programmes.

Topics discussed include: introduction to the work of the Research Council for the Humanities of the Academy of Finland; presentation of the History of the University of Helsinky; membership; reports on meeting with Joint Committee of Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities on May 1994 at Umea and the meeting of the Core Group of Standing Committee for Humanities (29/06/1994, Paris); Humanities policy for 1994-1998; the tlecture Voltaire Européen by Roland Mortier; programmes under development (Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World; Musical Institutions and the Circulation of Musicians in Europe 1648-1848; the activities of the ESF Asia Committee); ESF networks; requests for support; proposals for European Research Conferences; activities of the SCSS; reports on ESF programmes and Networks (History of Chemistry; History of the European Expansion; Language Typology; Concepts and Symbols in the 18th century; Semantics of Classical Hebrew; Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Transformation of the Roman World); idea to have a yearly meeting with member organisations’ administrators; suggestion to do one meeting of the Standing Committee per year.

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