Publications
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Serenísima palabra
(2017)
Tortura e migrazioni | Torture and Migration
(2019)
Forma estrema di rapporto sociale di sottomissione, la tortura è ancora diffusa ovunque e ciò si deve anche a molteplici processi tipici dell’era neo-liberista, a partire dalle politiche di blindatura securitaria della ...
Paradeigmata voluntatis
(2021)
‘Volontà’ discende, etimologicamente, da voluntas. Ma nell’accezione di voluntas non è più avvertita la plurivocità terminologica presente nella lingua greca. Di conseguenza la teoria dell’azione ampiamente affrontata nel ...
Roads to Reconciliation
(2018)
This volume include essays originally delivered at the international workshop Italy, Europe, China: Economic, Political and Cultural Relations During the Cold War Years (1949-1971) held at the Department of Asian and African ...
I promessi soldi
(2018)
New Steps in Japanese Studies
(2017)
The volume offers the results of the 3 years joint research project Innovative Japanese Studies through International Cooperation: The Fostering of Young Researchers by Cooperation with Overseas Institutes of Japanese ...
Orienti migranti: tra letteratura e traduzione
(2020)
Come definire la letteratura della migrazione? Attraverso una serie di casi di studio che vanno dalla Turchia alla Cina, passando per l’Armenia e l’Iran, Orienti migranti: tra letteratura e traduzione analizza ‘zone di ...
La didattica delle lingue nel nuovo millennio
(2018)
Atti del IV Congresso della società di Didattica delle Lingue e Linguistica Educativa DILLE (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, 2-4 febbraio 2017). Il fenomeno dell’internazionalizzazione è sempre più presente in ogni sfera ...
Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale
(2019)
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 ...
Repensar los estudios ibéricos desde la periferia
(2019)
Este volumen es un intento de renovación y desperiferialización de los estudios ibéricos, enfocando lo periférico como posicionamiento geográfico, cultural e ideológico, a la hora de cuestionar la óptica hegemónica del ...
Il mito degli Atridi dal teatro antico all’epoca contemporanea
(2023)
Da più di due millenni la vicenda mitica di Oreste, stretto fra la necessità di vendicare il padre assassinato e l’orrore dell’atto matricida, solleva un complesso di istanze etico-religiose e intellettuali capaci di ...
Sciamani urbani
(2020)
Marrying and Divorcing in Postwar Europe
(2020)
Taking Italy and Poland as its main case studies, this book re-examines the major political and ideological confrontations that crossed Cold War Europe from the perspective of ordinary families and of those who sought to ...
Sofocle, Niobe
(2023)
The City of Ebla
(2017)
Narratives of Violence
(2021)
Narratives of Violence is a contribution to the ethical turn in literary studies. In the current context of systemic political violence unleashed in the wake of 9/11 and the global advance of capitalism and neoliberalism, ...
«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)