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