The file contains the minutes of the meeting (chairman: Wim Blockmans). Included are the agenda and working documents for the meeting; including minutes; curriculum vitae; reports; white paper’s extract; proposals; members lists; conferences’ guidelines and programmes; posters; press clipping; screenshots.

Topics discussed include: presentation of the work of Royal Irish Academy; membership; report of the meeting of the Core Group (12/09/1995, Leiden); White Paper and ESF Advice on the Implementation of the 5th Framework Programme of the European Union; discussion on Bioethics in the Humanities; lecture Cultural Policy and Cultural War in the U.S. by Sheldon Hackney; programme under development (Musical Institutions and the Circulation of Music and Musicians in Europe 1600-1900; Media and the European dimension); new proposals of networks (Science and its Visual Image 1500-1800; Historical Social Inequalities); European Research Conferences; reports on scientific programmes (Transformation of the Roman World; the Evolution of Chemistry in Europe 1789-1939; Concepts and Symbols in the 18th century; Asian Studies; Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World; Language Typology; Origins of the Modern State); reports on scientific networks; report on Standing Committee for Social Sciences; texts for the Internet.

English, French

Poster, Textual