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