I libri di Ca’ Foscari

150 Years of Oriental Studies at Ca’ Foscari

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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 Japanese Studies • Near Estern Studies • Orientalism • Italy • Colloquial Arabic • Ca’ Foscari • Disciplinarity • Indus delta • Arabian Studies • Travel literature • Arturo De Luciano • Asian Studies • Social sciences • Teaching approaches • History • Venetian Royal High School of Commerce • Diglossia • International students • Italian-Japanese relations • Las Bela • Italian sinology • Silkworms breeding • Chiang Kai-shek • Islamic Studies • Scholars’ education and fields of research • Mongolian Studies • Semitic Philology • Prehistoric sites • Lebanon • Ancient and modern Semitic languages • Textual criticism • Aramaic • Austen Henry Layard • Japanese language instruction • Lionello Lanciotti • Alberto De’ Stefani • Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio • Mario Sabattini • Silk Road Studies • Jewish history • Sindh • History of the Department • Italian philology • Radiocarbon chronology • South Asian Studies • Arabic language • Ca’ Foscari Alumni • Ca’ Foscari University • Venice • History of Venice • Change • Armenians in Venice • China • Armenian Studies • Eastern languages • Indology • Nallino • Relations between Italy and Republican China • Chinese Studies • Learning needs • Jewish Studies • Hebrew • Marco Polo Studies • Japanese cartography

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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