Aims & Scope
Samkvidro is an international electronic scientific journal dedicated to the publication of original peer-reviewed research articles in the social sciences and related interdisciplinary fields.
The journal provides a scholarly platform for research examining societies, cultures, institutions, intellectual traditions, historical processes, and forms of cultural heritage. It particularly encourages interdisciplinary approaches that bring together social-scientific methods with historical, cultural, textual, and digital approaches.
The journal welcomes original research in areas including:
- History and historical studies
- Cultural studies
- Sociology
- Anthropology and ethnology
- Social and political history
- Religious and ecclesiastical studies
- Heritage studies
- Manuscript and book studies
- Philology and textual studies
- Intellectual and cultural history
- Digital Humanities and computational approaches to the study of society and culture
- Education and the history of education
- Communication and media studies
- Regional and area studies
Samkvidro is particularly interested in research exploring the relationships between society, culture, historical memory, intellectual traditions, texts, institutions, and cultural heritage.
The journal has a particular interest in the history and cultures of Georgia, the Caucasus, and the wider Eurasian region, while maintaining an international and comparative perspective. Contributions addressing broader regional and global questions are also welcome where they engage with the journal’s interdisciplinary scope.
Samkvidro seeks to promote dialogue between Georgian and international scholarship and to provide a platform for rigorous, innovative, and methodologically diverse research in the social sciences and related fields.