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

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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