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
The Latvian Academy of Culture is among the institutions that have contributed most significantly to the development and consolidation of Spanish as a foreign language in Latvia. First, since 1995, the Academy has offered the degree in Intercultural Relations between Latvia and Spain, which allows for specialization in Spanish with a curriculum similar to that of Hispanic Studies. Additionally, in 2004, it began collaborating with the Instituto Cervantes as the examination centre for the Diplomas in Spanish as a Foreign Language (DELE) in Latvia. Finally, since 2015, its Department of Intercultural Relations and Foreign Languages has been organizing the International Scientific Conference on Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE/SFL), a space dedicated to applied linguistics research and the exchange of innovative teaching practices.
In 2024, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the International Scientific Conference on Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Dr. Anda Laķe – Head of the Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, the research centre of the Latvian Academy of Culture – promoted the publication of this special issue of Culture Crossroads journal. The aim was to bring together a representative sample of the main lines of research addressed at the conference during its recent years of development. The result is a volume about Spanish and in Spanish, a language that, according to the latest yearbook of the Instituto Cervantes, has surpassed the figure of 600 million speakers worldwide, making it a valuable tool for intercultural communication.
