About the Journal
Culture Crossroads is an international peer-reviewed journal published by the Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies of the Latvian Academy of Culture. The goal of Culture Crossroads is to develop and expand theoretical and methodological approaches to the research of art and creativity with emphasis on the potential of a variety of disciplines and interdisciplinarity. The main focus of the publication is on the interaction of cultural, artistic and creative processes as well as the synergy between them and other domains of national economy, politics and social life. It is targeted on the most topical issues and discussion points in culture studies and arts. The publication is open to research in the fields of ethnology, theory of culture, semiotics, cultural anthropology, museology, cultural heritage, management of culture, sociology of culture and art, cultural economics (including creative industries), cultural politics, audio-visual art, performing arts, dance, theory of literature, musicology, law, linguistics, or other domains of culture studies and arts.
Culture Crossroads is indexed in: SCOPUS; EBSCO (Humanities Source Ultimate); ERIH PLUS; ULRICH'S; Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL).
According to the latest data from Scimago, Culture Crossroads was in the second quartile in the thematic area “Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)” in 2023.
Current Issue
At the core of the special issue of the journal Culture Crossroads are the papers presented at the IX Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference Exploring the Past and Future of Audiovisual Media in the Baltic Sea Region: Archives, Digital Platforms, Researchers and Spectators that took place in Riga on 6–8 June 2024. The conference was organized by the Latvian Academy of Culture, Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council, and LAC Riga Film Museum in cooperation with the Film Archive of the Estonian National Archives, the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, as well as media education and research centre Meno avilys. The conference had a dual, in terrelated focus: the histories of audiovisual collections with in the region, and the bur-geoning impact of digital technologies on facilitating access to these collections. In the wake of digital technologies, films from diverse historical periods and regions, as well as contemporary cinema have become globally accessible to an unprecedented extent.
