I libri di Ca’ Foscari

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Volume 8 | Review | 150 Years of Oriental Studies at Ca’ Foscari

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

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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