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