Cost Action A36, Tributary Empires Compared

Minutes of MC meeting no: 3

Date and time: 21 June, 14.00
Meeting place and address: Finnish Institute at Athens

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
7. Publications, annual report
8. Action evaluations
9. Requests for membership
10. Request for non-COST participation
11. Website news
12. Progress report of working groups
13. Long-term planning
14. Time and place of next meeting
15. AOB

Ad. 1) Peter Bang would take the minutes.

Ad. 2) The agenda, listed above, was adopted.

Ad. 3) The minutes of the last MC meeting, no. 2, in Istanbul were unanimously passed.

Ad. 4) Balasz Kiss, the new COST representative, presented himself to the MC and explained about the new organizational changes within the COST framework.
Rumania has joined the Action and was welcomed to the network.
The budget of 2006, totalling Euro 45.000, was presented.

Ad. 5) It was agreed that the action should divide its money as follows:

General action support: 2.000
Athens meeting: 21.500
Warsaw meeting: 21.500

To the extent that under spending should occur at any of the two meetings, the money should be made available to fund STSM’s.

Ad. 6) Zeynep Yelce, a graduate student of professor Metin Kunt, had applied to receive funding for an STSM, to go to London to study with Mia Rodriguez Salgado (of working group 2). It was left to the discretion of the action chair, to see how much money could be made available, on the basis of the final budgetary result of the Athens meeting (cf. ad. 5).

Ad. 7) Working group 1 and 2 reported about their publication plans and various publishers were discussed.

Ad. 8) The chair informed about the positive evaluation of A36 by the COST Technical Committee of the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Ad. 9) The chair proposed to invite Peter Haldén of Sweden to join the MC. The MC expressed its consent to this proposal.

Ad. 10) Nothing to report.

Ad. 11) The new web-site was briefly discussed.

Ad. 12) Professor Greg Woolf, presented the plans for the working group meeting at the University of St. Andrews, April 2007 on empire and knowledge.

Ad. 13) The chair presented a final plan for the remaining 2nd half of the action. After discussion, the plan was unanimously adopted by the MC which gives the following list of venues, themes and local organisers responsible for the 2nd half of the action:

April 2007, St. Andrews:
Local organizer: Greg Woolf
Theme: Empire and Knowledge

Autumn 2007, Tours:
Local organizer: Claire Sotinel
Theme: Empire, militarism and resistance.

Spring 2008, Vienna:
Local organiser: Ebba Koch
Theme: Comparing Aspects of Imperial Decline – Historiography, representation and explanations.

Autumn 2008, Rome:
Organiser: the core group; Bang, Bayly, Kunt

Concluding Conference

Ad. 14) Next meeting, Warsaw 13-15 October, 2006.

Peter Fibiger Bang (chair)