Series | I libri di Ca’ Foscari
Volume 8 | Review | 150 Years of Oriental Studies at Ca’ Foscari
Abstract
Since its establishment in 1868, Ca’ Foscari University’s educational vocation has been marked by its attention to the study and teaching of Oriental languages. Inheriting the legacy of Venice as a commercial and cultural gateway to the East, the development of Oriental studies has been envisioned as one of the most important and peculiar missions of this University as a national educational institution. This volume revisits the history of the teaching and research on Middle, Central, South-Asian and East Asian languages and civilisations at Ca’ Foscari, and of this University’s relationships with the East, offering some insights and information about the evolution of these disciplines, the main protagonists and the multiple connections that have tied and still tie Ca’ Foscari with the Oriental world.
Keywords Disciplinarity • Japanese cartography • Colloquial Arabic • Italian sinology • Chiang Kai-shek • Eastern languages • Alberto De’ Stefani • Radiocarbon chronology • Silk Road Studies • Chinese Studies • Arabian Studies • Indus delta • Mongolian Studies • Nallino • Sindh • Travel literature • Ancient and modern Semitic languages • Armenians in Venice • Arabic language • Arturo De Luciano • Ca’ Foscari • Ca’ Foscari University • Indology • Italian-Japanese relations • Lionello Lanciotti • Asian Studies • China • Ca’ Foscari Alumni • Aramaic • Prehistoric sites • Italian philology • Silkworms breeding • Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio • Social sciences • Teaching approaches • Near Estern Studies • Islamic Studies • History • Lebanon • Marco Polo Studies • Japanese Studies • Semitic Philology • Diglossia • Scholars’ education and fields of research • Venetian Royal High School of Commerce • Armenian Studies • International students • Hebrew • History of Venice • Learning needs • Jewish history • Japanese language instruction • Mario Sabattini • Jewish Studies • Venice • Las Bela • Austen Henry Layard • Textual criticism • Relations between Italy and Republican China • South Asian Studies • Orientalism • Italy • History of the Department • Change
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-252-9 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-252-9 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-253-6 | Published Oct. 21, 2018 | Language en, it
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Preface
1 Middle Eastern and North African Studies
2 South Asian Studies and Central Asian Studies
3 East Asian Studies