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Asian and North African Studies

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Summer School in Classical Chinese and Japanese, 2024 edition
Summer School in Classical Chinese and Japanese, 2024 edition

The Summer School in Classical Chinese and Classical Japanese/Kanbun is unique in its kind. Organised in collaboration with Princeton University, it offers two tracks of comprehensive, grammar-focused instruction taught by Faculty members from both Ca' Foscari and Princeton.
The programme is designed especially for students who wish to develop their linguistic expertise for graduate study in any discipline of premodern China or Japan.
Read more on the Summer School website.

Face to face with Joseph Emanuel Sanzo
Face to face with Joseph Emanuel Sanzo

Joseph Emanuel Sanzo, Associate Professor at DSAAM, teaches in the fields of Religious Studies and Ancient Mediterranean History, providing students with the theoretical, methodological, and historical skills necessary to study Ancient Religion (especially the religion of everyday life in antiquity). 
Watch the video interview on the DSAAM Youtube channel.

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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.

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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.