Action no: A36, Tributary Empires Compared
Minutes of MC meeting no: 8
Date and time: 9 November, 14:00
Meeting place and address: Room 006, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur
Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht
Chair: Peter Fibiger Bang
Agenda
1. Welcome to participants; taking of minutes
2. Adoption of agenda
3. Minutes of last meeting
4. Report from the Science Officer
• News from the COST Office
• Status of Action
• Number of Signatories
• Budget Status
5. Year Budget planning
6. STSM status, applications,
- update on training school in Rome
7. Publications, annual report
8. Action evaluations
9. Requests for membership
10. Request for non-COST participation
11. Website news
12. Long-term planning
- Dissemination plan
13. Progress report of working groups
- Update Rome conference
14. Time and place of next meeting
15. AOB
Ad. 1) Peter Bang would take the minutes
Ad. 2) Agenda was adopted
Ad. 3) The minutes of last meeting were approved.
Ad. 4) The new science officer, Julia Stamm presented herself to the MC; budget status. The action was on target. A total frame of € 86,000 had been granted the action.
Ad. 5)
Budget:
- Rome meeting: € 37,000
- Rome training school (€ 600 stipends for 18 participants € 12,000
and 1200 for organisation etc.)
- Utrecth meeting € 24,000
- Istanbul (special meeting): € 1,000
- STSMs and special meetings € 10,000
- General Action Support Grant € 2,000
In total € 86,000
Ad. 6)
1 STSM completed so far this year by Natalia
2 STSMs approved for the remainder of the action: Karsten Johanning (Copenhagen, to visit St Andrews) and Dariusz Kolodzjiek (Warsaw-Copenhagen).
- Training school was ready to accept applications. First priority would be given to graduate students recommended by members of the network. Remaining slots would be advertised in various contexts. Deadline for recommendation, sent by MC members to Metin Kunt, was 1 December 2008.
Programme with Peter Bang, Ebba Koch, Claire Sotinel, Metin Kunt and Adam Ziolkowsky, Tuesday-Thursday leading up to the concluding conference.
Ad. 7)
First publication of the network edited by Giovanni Salmeri and Björn Forsén
Jeroen Duindam and Metin Kunt were close to completion of the editing of the Court Volume
Peter Bang and Christopher Bayly were close to completion of the editing of the Empires in Contention volume.
Peter Bang and Driusz Kolodzjiek were expecting to finish the editing of the Universal Empire volume by summer 2009.
Surayia Faroqhi and Adam Ziolkowski were making good progress with the militarism volume.
Ad. 8)
The empire and law meeting was discussed, and it was decided that Jeroen Duindam would go on to collect the papers with a view to publication.
Ad. 11)
The web-site had now begun to announce related conferences organised outside the network and new publications in the field (information from MC members about both types of news were very welcome)
Ad. 12)
As part of the dissemination Julia Stamm was asked to compile a list of guests that COST would like to invite to the final meeting. Further, members of the Schools and Academies in Rome were to be invited to the concluding meeting.
- Peter Bang informed about the Hera meeting, 9-10 October 2008, were Antonios Anastasopoulos and he had represented the action.
Ad. 13)
An update on the programme was provided for the Rome conference. The possibility of some financial support to enable low budget meetings to take place between author pairs in preparation for the Rome conference was raised. The mc approved to reserve a modest sum for such meetings, app. € 1,000-2,000, if possible to be organised as STSM’s or else a special meetings.
Ad. 14)
Next and final meeting: Rome, L’Accademia di Danimarca (Via Omero), 16.15.