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

Thema codes GTB • JNB • 1DST-IT-NVE

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 it, en

Subseries 1868-2018: storie di un ateneo

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