ASPECT doctoral students Caroline Alphin and Shelby Ward participated in the Western Political Science Association Meeting, which was held March 29–31 in San Francisco, California.

Alphin presented “Not a State of Exception: Weak State Killing as a Mode of Neoliberal Governmentality.”

Ward’s paper was titled “The Cosmopolitan Geospatial Imaginary of the Anthropocene: Reimagining Planetarity as a Response to Global Consumption and Blame.”