The file contains the minutes of the meeting (chairman: Wim Blockmans). Are also included the agenda and working documents, which include letters, curriculum vitae, minutes, workshops programmes, proposals, reports, lists of publications, participants, proposals or programmes, plan, press clipping, newsletter, agendas.

Topics discussed include: membership; Standing Committee for Humanities Core Group meeting (14/06/ 1997,Copenhagen); activities under preparations (Cultural Exchanges in Europe, Bioethics, Musical Life in Europe 1600-1900: Circulation, Institutions and Representations, Changing Media – Changing Europe); the Evolution of Chemistry in Europe 1789-1939; ESF Plan 1998-2001 and SCH priority statement, EC 5th Framework Programme and large-scale Research Facilities; reports on proposed, new and on-going networks; Exploratory Workshop on Early Medieval Europe: the chronological basis; news from member organisations; SCH newsletter; Call for proposals for exploratory research workshops; Asian studies review and proposition for a second mandate; reports of on-going programmes (Concepts and Symbols in the 18th century; Transformation of the Roman World; Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World; Evolution of Chemistry in Europe; Language Typology); creation of a specific budget for publications; European Research Conferences (Women in the Christian Tradition from the Age of Reform); Standing Committee for Social Sciences.

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