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

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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