The yearbook has the task of applying the fields of literary and scientific history to one another. In doing so, the yearbook reacts to the expansion of problems and methods which have emerged in both disciplines over the last decades. Building on the insight that literary-artistic and (natural)-scientific discourse are not two separate spheres and cannot be properly described separate from one another, the yearbook offers an interdisciplinary discussion forum for the historical analysis of the interactions between the (natural) sciences and literature (studies) in theory development and reflection from the late Middle Ages to the present. One of the topics of the yearbook is the canon of the sciences, which was founded by medieval universities and which in recent times has been expanded to include disciplines such as the natural sciences, psychology, sociology and the science of history. The field of topics chosen for the yearbook reflects a conscious decision to avoid any thematic limitations of these diverse times, disciplines and aspects.

The Colloquia Raurica are organized every two years by the Collegium Rauricum. They take place at Castelen, the country estate of the Römer-Stiftung Dr René Clavel in Augst (Augusta Raurica) near Basel. Each colloquium deals with a topical question of general interest within the humanities from a multi-disciplinary perspective, with a special focus on contributions from classical studies. The results of the colloquia are published in the series Colloquia Raurica.