Studia Banatica. Series Philologiais published in Romanian and in widely-spoken languages (English, French, German). The objective of the journal is to explore the literary and linguistic interrelation of ideas, forms and facts, focusing especially on East-European culture. The Banat lying for a long time among flexible borders, surrounded by empires, but also at the crossroads of commercial routes, connecting Central Europe to the Mediterranean South, had persistent consequences. More than twenty languages were spoken in the Banat and numerous religions and denominations could be encountered. The ethnical, linguistic and religious fan was opened mainly as a means of competition, rarely as a confrontation, but it determined, at the same time, various cultural transfer mechanisms, situated between the tendency to fusion and the comparative cleavage, as Jacques Le Rider stated.
On this surviving multicultural background (or intercultural, concept preferred by Michael Heim), a culture of dialogue was born, which Studia Banatica. Series Philologia intends to keep and refresh. This journal favours the proximity perspective in disciplines, methodology, structure, concepts.
The journal is made up of sections for literary and linguistic studies, followed by reviews of philology books and volumes dealing with related subjects and it is aimed at Romanian and foreign specialists.
Continuing, to some extent, Revista de studii banatice (founded by the „Titu Maiorescu” Institute of Banat Studies in 2010), the present journal is divided into two fascicles, Series Philologia and Series Historia, respectively, according to the research fields of the institute. The difference in name and structure is completed with a new approach, the regional being replaced by an integrating vision, sensitive to the alternation and complementary among intra- and intersystem relations, discernable – following Itamar Even-Zohar – during the forging of the national culture and relevant to (semi)peripheral cultures.