Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale



Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale

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Aims & Scope

Annali di Ca’ Foscari.Serie orientale is the journal of the Department of Asian and North African Studies of Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Started in 1970, the journal became an Open Access resource in 2014. Its mission is to foster original and interdisciplinary research in the fields of Asian and North African Studies. Each annual issue features articles and reviews written by leading scholars whose contributions span across a vast array of topics. These can be gathered under four main headings:

  1. Linguistics, philology, and literature.
  2. Religions and philosophies.
  3. Archaeology and cultural heritage, visual and performing arts.
  4. History, economy, politics, and international relations. 

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042 | e-ISSN 2385-3042 | Periodicity annual | Language en, fr, it, ja

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Latest published issue

Cover del fascicolo 61 | 2025 | Supplemento
  • 61 | 2025 | Supplemento
  • Metaphors: Conceptualising Horizons of Meaning
  • Wenxin Jin, Rebecca Ciattini, Laura Locatelli, Michele Pulini, Kesang Thakur, Claudia Zancan
  • Nov. 14, 2025

  • At the core of human thought and expression lies the profound capacity of metaphor – the act of understanding one concept in terms of another. However, over the last decade, in response to the socio-political and ecological realities of the ‘Anthropocene’, disciplines like anthropology have also pointed at the limitations of human thought, highlighting its fundamental role in large scale planetary destruction. These critical enquiries into modes of thought beyond the human such as in Eduardo Kohn’s path breaking work with indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon forests, challenged our perceptions about the ‘field’ of thinking and communication as the sole domain of humans. It is with such a renewed orientation of metaphors that we organised our PhD symposium, Metaphors: Conceptualising Horizons of Meaning, held from the 26th to the 28th of February 2024 at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The present volume aims at exploring some of these perspectives. The symposium was the result of a collective endeavour by the doctoral candidates of the PhD in Asian and African Studies, XXXVIII cycle, at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice: Rebecca Ciattini, Wenxin Jin, Cien Liang, Laura Locatelli, Michele Pulini, Michele Scarlassara, Kesang Thakur, and Claudia Zancan.

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