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I libri di Ca’ Foscari
Volume 8 | Review | 150 Years of Oriental Studies at Ca’ Foscari
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 History • Italian philology • Las Bela • Indology • Sindh • Aramaic • Venice • Travel literature • Textual criticism • Near Estern Studies • Orientalism • Radiocarbon chronology • Venetian Royal High School of Commerce • Indus delta • Armenian Studies • Alberto De’ Stefani • History of Venice • Italian-Japanese relations • Japanese cartography • Italy • International students • Jewish Studies • Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio • Lebanon • Asian Studies • Learning needs • Mongolian Studies • Prehistoric sites • Semitic Philology • Ca’ Foscari University • Japanese Studies • Italian sinology • Arabian Studies • Disciplinarity • Colloquial Arabic • South Asian Studies • Arturo De Luciano • China • Diglossia • Silk Road Studies • Silkworms breeding • Jewish history • Nallino • Japanese language instruction • Ancient and modern Semitic languages • Eastern languages • Hebrew • Scholars’ education and fields of research • Teaching approaches • Armenians in Venice • Chinese Studies • Ca’ Foscari Alumni • Ca’ Foscari • Arabic language • Relations between Italy and Republican China • History of the Department • Islamic Studies • Change • Austen Henry Layard • Marco Polo Studies • Social sciences • Chiang Kai-shek • Lionello Lanciotti • Mario Sabattini
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
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Preface
1 Middle Eastern and North African Studies
2 South Asian Studies and Central Asian Studies
3 East Asian Studies