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