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

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 | Pubblicato 21 Ottobre 2018 | Lingua it, en

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