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

Thema codes GTB • JNB • 1DST-IT-NVE

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

Subseries 1868-2018: storie di un ateneo

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