This panel has two related aims:

1) To present new readings of Beckett through the lens of Adorno and/or Badiou

2) To juxtapose Adorno and Badiou's reading of Beckett in order to show how each illuminates ethical and political shortcomings in the other

Please send a 250-500 word abstract to charlessumner@hotmail.com by April 1.

The Modernist Studies conference will be held from November 17-20, 2016, in Pasadena, California.