The Archives of Babel: September 25, 2009 -- January 22, 2010 (Click title for exhibition website)

“The Archives of Babel” at Furman University’s Special Collections cannot, obviously, house a complete collection of works in every language. However, the Special Collections does contain a surprising array of texts written both in and about a variety of languages. With this exhibition, we hope to display a small and diverse sampling of materials featuring different languages as well as dates of origin. Understanding language to be an effort at communication or articulation bound by context, we aim to broaden traditional notions of language to include non-written forms as well as music. If humankind failed to attain infinitude in height through Babel, we have certainly have achieved it through the breadth, depth, and diversity of language.

Last updated: November 10, 2009