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