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

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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