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The Scientific Research Center for Serbian Culture in Romania (CCSCSR), an integral part of the Union of Serbs in Romania, was founded in Timișoara on October 9, 2013, at the initiative of university PhD Professor Mihai N. Radan, with the support of a group of Serbian intellectuals in the country. On the same day, the decision was made to launch a periodical magazine that would publish scientific papers based on fieldwork (carried out annually in different areas of the Romanian part of the Banat region) in localities with a Serbian ethnic population in the Romanian Banat region and research on archival documents about Serbs in Romania that would be carried out by the CCSCSR. In 2014, also in Timișoara, the periodical Începuturi / Ishodišta / Originations was founded as the scientific bulletin of the CCSCSR. The West University of Timișoara, host of the first international scientific conference on the spiritual and material culture of Serbs in the Banat region, held on October 17-19, 2014, agreed to collaborate with the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Niš, involving colleagues and teachers from Niš in the CCSCSR research project and jointly publishing the periodical, thus extrapolating the issue of future research on Serbs in multi-ethnic and/or peripheral areas.

The first issue of the journal was printed in 2015, and the most recent, eleventh issue was published in 2025. The journal publishes research papers from various fields of spiritual and material culture of Serbs in the above-mentioned regions – linguistics (dialectology, lexicology, etc.), ethnology, ethnolinguistics, history, literature, theology, sociology, etc. By publishing scientific papers, the main objective of the journal is to preserve and conserve spiritual and material culture (that which has been preserved to date), especially that of the Serbs in the Banat region (whose future is uncertain), but also that of other isolated, peripheral areas.

Editor-in-chief,

PhD. Prof.  Mihaj N. Radan

 

 

Editing Committee

 

Editor-in-chief:

  • PhD Prof. Mihai Radan

 

Editorial board:

  • PhD Prof. Snežana Gudurić, University of Novi Sad
  • PhD Prof. Marina Janjić, University of Niš
  • PhD Prof. Nadežda Jović, University of Niš
  • PhD Senior Lecturer Aleksandra Lončar Raičević, University of Niš
  • PhD Prof. Goran Maksimović, University of Niš
  • PhD Prof. Jordana Marković, University of Niš
  • PhD Prof. Sofija Miloradović, Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade
  • PhD Prof. Radivoje Mladenović, University of Kragujevac
  • PhD Prof. Octavia Nedelcu, University of Bucharest
  • PhD Prof. Mihai Radan, West University of Timișoara
  • Prof. Dimitrije Savić, West University of Timișoara
  • PhD Prof. Sreto Tanasić, Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade
  • PhD Senior Lecturer Miliana Radmila Uscatu, West University of Timișoara
  • PhD Senior Lecturer Danijela Kostadinović, University of Niš
  • PhD. Mirjana Bojanić Ćirković, University of Niš
  • PhD Associate Prof. Mața Țaran Andreici, West University of Timișoara

 

Referenți științifici:

  • PhD Prof. Marina Janjić
  • PhD Prof. Nadežda Jović
  • PhD Senior Lecturer Aleksandra Lončar Raičević
  • PhD Prof. Jordana Marković
  • PhD Prof. Sofija Miloradović,
  • PhD Prof. Radivoje Mladenović
  • PhD Prof. Octavia Nedelcu
  • PhD Prof. Jiva Milin
  • PhD Prof. Mihai Radan
  • PhD. Dragana Radovanović
  • Prof. Dimitrije Savić
  • PhD. Biljana Sikimić
  • PhD. Svetlana Ćirković
  • PhD Senior Lecturer Miliana Radmila Uscatu
  • PhD Prof. Irena Arsić
  • PhD Associate Prof. Mața Țaran Andreici

 

Note:

  • The editorial board consists of 16 members
  • The members of the Editorial Board come from the following universities (from Romania and Serbia) or from the Institute of Serbian Language of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade:
  1. West University of Timișoara – Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology: 4 members
  2. University of Bucharest – Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures: 1 member
  3. University of Niš – Faculty of Philosophy: 7 members
  4. University of Kragujevac – Faculty of Philology and Arts: 1 member
  5. University of Novi Sad – Faculty of Philosophy: 1 member
  6. Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade: 2 members
  • 16 scientific advisors from Romania and Serbia

 

Serbian website of Ishodišta – Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Nišu