Virginia Tech anticipates the launching of the ASPECT Ph.D. program in 2006. This program allies together a multidisciplinary coalition of departments: Philosophy, Political Science, History, and Interdisciplinary Studies. Faculty and students in this program will conduct research and participate in graduate seminars addressing developing theoretical problems at the intersections of political theory, ethical philosophy, cultural studies, and intellectual history. Typical issues include state sovereignty, religion and politics, comparative ethics, security and democracy, material culture, science and technology, global change, identity and otherness, environmental crisis, networks and states, or corporate power. For more information, please see http://www.aspect.vt.edu or contact Wolfgang Natter at: wnatter@vt.edu.