Publications
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«Ad consolationem legentium»
(2020)
L’estetica del vuoto
(2023)
Questo volume fa seguito al International Festival Japan Contemporary Arts in Venice, The Aesthetics of Emptiness, organizzato nel 2022 dal Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, dal Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e ...
Agrippina Maggiore
(2019)
Galileo in Europa
(2020)
Religion, Education, and the ‘East’
(2023)
This work addresses the theme of Japanese religions in order to rethink theories and practices pertaining to the field of Religious Education. Through an interdisciplinary framework that combines the study of religions, ...
Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions
(2022)
The present volume collects most of the contributions to the plenary sessions held at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, and incisively reflects the ever increasing broadening of the very concept of ...
A New World Post COVID-19
(2020)
Pandemics are disruptive events that have profound consequences for society and the economy. This volume aims to present an analysis of the economic impact of COVID-19 and its likely consequences for our future. This is ...
Amerigo Vespucci: The Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution
(2020)
This book offers a new reconstruction of Amerigo Vespucci’s navigational and scientific endeavours in their historical context. The author argues that all of the manuscripts or texts that Vespucci left to posterity are ...
Palabras Vocabulario Léxico
(2017)
Il tesoro di Cipro
(2020)
Adīb
(2017)
Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics
(2020)
This volume collects papers presenting corpus-based research on Chinese language and linguistics, from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The contributions cover different fields of linguistics, including ...
Death and Desire in Contemporary Japan
(2017)
The title of this volume refers to the Buddhist concepts of suffering, impermanence and dependent origination, which link the ideas of Death and Desire. This book stems from a research conducted in the last few years at ...
Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism
(2022)
Renaissance antiquarianism can be defined as a cultural phenomenon that aims to interpret the past by cross-referencing heterogeneous sources accumulated and collected over time. This entailed the use of new investigative ...
Le grandi questioni sociali del nostro tempo
(2018)
Questo volume esamina criticamente le grandi questioni sociali del nostro tempo: prima tra tutte la grande crisi del capitalismo globale scoppiata nel 2008, e poi le trasformazioni dello stato, la crescita strutturale delle ...
Venetians and Ottomans in the Early Modern Age
(2018)
The present volume, a collection of papers focusing on Venice and those former Venetian colonies which passed to the Ottoman Empire during the early Modern age, retraces the relationship between Venetians and Ottomans in ...
Agamennone classico e contemporaneo
(2022)
Il nome di Agamennone evoca un tempo antico e primitivo, quando il potere coincide con la forza, e una storia familiare che narra di una catena ininterrotta di delitti di sangue. Agamennone è il protagonista di una biografia ...
Armenia, Caucaso, Asia Centrale
(2018)
Questo nuovo volume della serie «Eurasiatica. Quaderni di Studi su Balcani, Anatolia, Iran, Caucaso e Asia Centrale» delle Edizioni Ca’ Foscari di Venezia raccoglie diversi articoli dedicati all’Armenia, al Caucaso e ...
METra 1
(2022)
Il libro raccoglie i contributi presentati nel corso del primo Seminario internazionale METra (Mapping Epic in Tragedy – Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura) svoltosi nel maggio del 2021 presso l’Università degli Studi ...
The Historian’s Gaze
(2023)
This volume brings together a group of historians of modern China and East Asia, who have shared with Guido Samarani the experience of studying China in the last thirty years. It represents a small tribute to a friend and ...
Migration and Torture in Today’s World
(2023)
This book analyses torture, inhuman and degrading treatment towards migrants worldwide, integrating overviews from several contexts and disciplines. It highlights that today migrants’ mistreatment is a global phenomenon, ...
Proceedings of the XV East Asia Net Research Workshop
(2017)
Papers contained in this volume were prepared for the XV East Asia Net (EAN) Research Workshop, held at University Ca’ Foscari of Venice in Spring 2015. The workshop addressed two themes: the nature-culture-society nexus ...
J-Economy, J-Corporation and J-Power since 1990
(2018)
Once hailed as superpower and benchmark of Post-Fordism management, Japan’s economy and its corporations are taken as negative example of insufficient compliance to neoliberalist policies. This book demonstrates that the ...
Rethinking English Language Certification
(2017)
What are the challenges posed to English language examining boards by the phenomenal growth of English as a lingua franca? This volume takes a critical look at existing international English language certification, which ...
Studi di linguistica slava
(2019)
Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature
(2022)
This volume brings together scholars from different backgrounds and career stages to rethink the role and scope of intertextuality in the context of premodern Japan. From antiquity to the rise of modernity, originality ...
L’arte armena e oltre. Nuovi contributi
(2023)
Il volume raccoglie in gran parte le ricerche presentate durante gli ultimi Seminari sull’Arte Armena e dell’Oriente cristiano organizzati dall’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. Dall’arte cristiana (gli arredi della Basilica ...
Élites e cultura
(2019)
Il Dottorato di ricerca in Storia Antica e Archeologia, oggi confluito in quello in Scienze dell’Antichità in convenzione con Udine e Trieste, ha rappresentato, a Ca’ Foscari, un momento importante di crescita del settore ...
Italia/Argentina
(2022)
Stoneyards and Artists in Gandhara
(2022)
The work presented here advances a hypothetical reconstruction of the planning and programming of the building site, the executive process, the construction and decoration, and ultimately the deconsecration and abandonment ...
Language, Gender and Hate Speech
(2020)
Gender, language and hate speech: Are these concepts unrelated to each other, or is it possible to find a common research thread that allows us to understand them as two aspects of the same social phenomenon? This is the ...
Moving Spaces
(2021)
This collection of essays investigates some of the theories and concepts related to the burgeoning presence of dance and performance in the museum. This surge has led to significant revisions of the roles and functions ...
Aimes-tu le français?
(2012)
Al crocevia delle civiltà
(2014)
Cultural Heritage. Scenarios 2015-2017
(2017)
The title of the Series «Sapere l’Europa, sapere d’Europa» voices the desire to investigate facets of the process of European integration without disregarding its most weighty, however controversial and bureaucratic, ...
Le varietà del naturalismo
(2019)
‘Naturalismo’ è una categoria che designa posizioni filosofiche tra loro diversificate, accomunate dal comune riferimento alla natura come oggetto primario dell’indagine filosofica. La riflessione filosofica della seconda ...
Curatorial studies
(2023)
Borders
(2016)
This collection of essays stands as the first volume of the new Eurasiatica series entirely devoted to the vast territories of Iranian culture, understood in the widest sense possible and in an open chronological perspective. ...
Euripide, Ifigenia in Aulide
(2021)
May Fourth and Translation
(2020)
The May 4th Movement in 1919 – and more broadly the so-called New Culture movement in the 1910s and 1920s, – a landmark in the history of China, was marked by a great wave of translations, without precedent other than the ...
Donne in fuga
(2018)
Per una dimensione imperiale
(2019)
Tra lingue e culture
(2017)
Rethinking Nature in Post-Fukushima Japan
(2018)
This volume brings together the papers presented at the international symposium Rethinking Nature in Contemporary Japan: Facing the Crisis held at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in March 2015, as the last of a three-years ...
The Tongbai Palace and Its Daoist Communities: A History
(2023)
Daoism, at its core, is a religion: a way of interpreting the cosmos. Historically, Daoism evolved by incorporating elements of diverse religious traditions and maintained a dialectical relationship with Chinese society ...
De prospectiva pingendi
(2016)
Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale
(2021)
Il volume intende rappresentare le principali linee di ricerca sviluppate in ambito accademico italiano da studiosi nazionali e internazionali sulle aree caucasica e centro-asiatica. In questa prospettiva, il volume presenta ...
Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale
(2023)
Il volume intende rappresentare le principali linee di ricerca sviluppate in ambito accademico italiano da studiosi nazionali e internazionali sulle aree caucasica e centroasiatica. In questa prospettiva, il volume presenta ...
Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition
(2019)
This book gathers together two essays. The first deals with the origins of the character of Farhād, the unlucky lover of Shīrīn, who – in the Persian narrative tradition – digs a route through Mount Bīsutūn and accomplishes ...
Il viaggio in Armenia
(2021)
Il volume raccoglie saggi di studiosi di diversa estrazione dedicati alle narrazioni che visitatori, mercanti, missionari e viaggiatori di varie epoche e provenienze hanno dedicato all’Armenia, alla sua storia, alla sua ...
Materials and Methods of Analysis for the Study of the Ainu Language
(2022)
This volume is intended to be a practical manual to learn the basics of the Ainu language, in its varieties of Southern Hokkaidō and Sakhalin. Each lesson presents one specific topic that is investigated taking into account ...
Questioni di donne
(2023)
L’Italia, l’altrove
(2022)
Un monde partagé : la Sicile du premier siècle av. J.-C. entre Diodore et Cicéron
(2023)
À quelques années de distance, Cicéron et Diodore, deux écrivains s’intéressent à la Sicile. Dans une République agonisante, l’un veut en faire le miroir d’une très ancienne civilisation, le paradigme d’une cohabitation ...
Traduction humaine et traitement automatique des langues
(2023)
L’intelligence artificielle est en train de redéfinir la traduction automatique et le traitement automatique des langues. il est ainsi urgent de mieux en saisir les enjeux sociaux, économiques et éthiques. Ce volume collectif ...
Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
(2023)
The volume publishes the proceeding of the workshop Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond held at the University of Turin on 26-27 October 2022. The volume collects papers from Assyriologists, ...
Citizens of Europe
(2015)
Novecento e dintorni
(2016)
El ejemplo y su antagonista
(2021)
Mostri del Giappone
(2014)
Stuck and Exploited
(2021)
This volume analyses exclusion processes, segregation dynamics and the forms of discrimination of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy, where the reception system is marked by opaqueness and arbitrariness and is becoming ...
Small-scale Fisheries in Japan
(2018)
This collection of essays brings together a range of various critical approaches, to provide an in-depth overview of the past and current status of small-scale fisheries in Japan. Covering different aspects of environmental, ...
Arte, legge, restauro
(2022)
Questo volume pone in dialogo discipline e contesti geografici diversi con lo scopo di confrontare pratiche e teorie della storia della tutela e del restauro tra il XVI e il XIX secolo in una nuova prospettiva europea. Gli ...
