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Asian and North African Studies

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Office hours online form 10th March
Office hours online form 10th March

Starting Monday, March 10, 2025, office hours for faculty members based at Ca' Vendramin will temporarily be held online.
Students are encouraged to contact faculty members to arrange online meetings.
Office hours at Ca' Cappello will continue to take place in person as usual.
Please follow official communication channels for updates. 
Thank you for your cooperation! 

Applications Open for the 2025 Ca’ Foscari – Princeton Summer School in Classical Chinese and Japanese/Kanbun
Applications Open for the 2025 Ca’ Foscari – Princeton Summer School in Classical Chinese and Japanese/Kanbun

From July 7 to August 8, 2025, immerse yourself in Classical Chinese or Classical Japanese/Kanbun with expert faculty from Ca’ Foscari and Princeton. This five-week program combines intensive language study with lectures on premodern culture. Open to students at all levels, it offers 15 ECTS credits.
Apply by February 28, 2025. Spots are limited.

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Follow all the activities in the Department: workshops, conferences, symposiums... and also theatre and music! Check regularly our online agenda and subscribe to Orior Newsletter

DSAAM: a unique learning opportunity
DSAAM: a unique learning opportunity

Not only Chinese, Japanse or Arabic: the Department offers the opportunity to learn many languages and cultures, from Armenian to Vietnamese, from Georgian to Thai.
Check out all the opportunities offered in our courses.

Welcome message from Laura De Giorgi, Director of the Department

"Our department is unique nationwide. It is a lively and dynamic place with a long tradition of studying and researching Eastern civilisations, which has developed at Ca' Foscari since its inception. In our courses, you can learn languages and explore cultures from a vast area spanning from North Africa to East Asia. Our research is multidisciplinary by nature, with many active laboratories and research centres. We also have exchanges and collaborations with Venetian institutions.”

Laura De Giorgi,
Director of the Department of Asian and North African Studies

Agenda

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Our research

Research areas

The Department of Asian and North African Studies offers a great variety of research topics, which reflects the great variety of interests of the teaching staff. This variety contributes to creating a stimulating environment; it promotes a multi-disciplinary approach; and it offers ample support to the most diverse research prospects. 

In order to help you navigate these ramifications, the staff’s main research interests are linked to linguistic and geographical areas, and organised in themes, in order to help you identify the research topics that the Department focuses on: Arabic studies, Armenian-Caucasian studies, Korean studies, Jewish studies, Indian studies, Iranian studies, Japanese studies, Chinese studies, Southeast Asian studies, and Turkish studies.  

 

Research projects
EJCM - Early Jewish and Christian Magical Traditions in Comparison and Contact

Supervisor: Joseph E. Sanzo
Length: 5 years (01/02/2020 - 31/01/2025)

FUZZFARM - Modelling of the early agricultural spread in south of the Eastern Europe

Supervisor: Paolo Biagi
Length: 24 months (15/03/2021 - 14/03/2023)

Publications

The research conducted at the Department of Asian and North African Studies results in internationally recognised scientific work, including contributions to journals, books, and conference proceedings.