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

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 | Pubblicato 21 Ottobre 2018 | Lingua en, it

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