Chromodynamics and the quark model.- Meson spectroscopy.- Baryons in the quark model.- Baryon spectroscopy.- Progress of Hadron Mass Calculations in Lattice QCD.- Dynamics of photoreactions at medium energies.- Hadron photoproduction at medium energy.- Methods and results of nucleon spectroscopy.- Exotica for ELSA: Baryonia, dibaryons, glueballs and hybrids.- The current status of dibaryon searches.- Hybrid bags and solitons.- Electroweak effects in intermediate energy physics.- Quarks in nuclei.- Electron scattering from nucleons and deuterons at intermediate energies.- Electron scattering from light nuclei.- Nonrelativistic approach to deuteron photoreactions.- Relativistic effects in nuclei.- Photo- and electro-production of kaons and the study of hypernuclei.- Mesons and ?s in nuclei.- Photonuclear physics with low intensity photon beams.- The ELSA stretcher ring.- The SAPHIR detector.- Polarized targets and beams.- The MAMI-project.- Future prospects in photon and electron physics at Saclay.- The SURA-CEBAF project.- Closing remarks.