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

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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