Two ASPECT doctoral students, Linea Cutter and Sengul Yildiz Alanbay, gave presentations at the International Studies Association – South Annual Conference, which was held October 4–5 in Memphis, Tennessee. Cutter presented “Inanimate Eating: Spaces of Empire and Resistance.” The title of Alanbay’s presentation was “Biopolitics, Sovereign Power, and Racial Exclusion: Exercising Sovereign Power over Refugees in Germany.”