At the initiative of the Rector of Tbilisi State University, Academician Jaba Samushia, publication of the Georgica journal will resume. The new edition, Georgica: Journal of Georgian Studies, will be published in English, with a focus on integrating Georgian studies into the international scientific community and indexing the journal in international databases. A presentation of the journal’s website (https://georgica.journals.humanities.tsu.ge) was held at TSU, and the call for submissions was announced.

Georgica resumed publication as part of the TSU scientific journals support project. “Georgian studies [also known as Kartvelian studies] are represented at various universities around the world. However, this is not enough. Georgian Studies need to be popularized. The goal of the journal is to introduce Georgian studies to the world’s leading centers. This is a publication of national importance. Regardless of where Kartvelian studies are conducted, the center of these studies remains at Tbilisi State University,” said the journal’s editor-in-chief, TSU Rector Jaba Samushia.

The English-language electronic scientific journal Georgica will be published twice a year and will also have a printed version. The journal was created according to the criteria established for SCOPUS. Along with Georgian scientists, the Georgica editorial board also includes foreign Kartvelologists.

Georgica, a journal founded in 1977, is the result of a collaboration between Tbilisi State University and Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. The project was initiated by the German linguist Heinz Fähnrich. From 1978 to 2017, 38 issues of the journal were published within the framework of this cooperation. The journal published scientific articles dealing with various issues of Kartvelology and Caucasology, including philology, philosophy, history, archaeology, art and ethnology. The articles were written in German. The archive of German-language publications will be preserved on the updated journal’s website. Georgica has always held a distinguished place among Kartvelological publications printed abroad. For certain reasons, publication ceased in recent years. At the initiative of TSU Rector Jaba Samushia, the Faculty of Humanities at Tbilisi State University has decided to publish an updated version of the journal Georgica this year. Georgica will focus on diversifying interdisciplinary research in the field of humanities (archaeology, ethnology, history, culture, philology, philosophy, and art).

Currently, Pro Georgia is the only international journal in Georgian studies, published by the University of Warsaw through the efforts of David Kolbaia.