SPIN Colloquium 2024 – A thank you!

A big thank you to all our presenters, attendees and organisers of this year’s SPIN Colloquium 2024. Over the two days we listened to and gave 15 talks on papers and projects all related to secrecy (and demolished 24 mince pies). It was great to be back together and hear about all the progress made and the exciting plans.

Talks included:

• Clare Stevens, Brian Rappert, Owen Thomas and Elspeth Van Veeren – From Dyadic to Complex:
  Remaking Secrecy in International Relations and Beyond or What do we mean by power when we study secrecy in SPIN
• Lisa Stampnitzky – Challenges to the secrecy regime: from plausible deniability to strategic acknowledgement
• Lydia Morgan – Justice is seen to be done: respective and barricade secrecy in the courts
• Hannah Richards and Emma Yapp – The revolving doors of administrative justice: A reflection on transparency and secrecy in the responses to sexual misconduct committed by trusted professionals
• Brian Rappert – Seeing Revelations through the Mirror of Secrecy
• Anna Flamind – The making of a racial scandal: security and the location of critique
• Jamie Johnson, Victoria Basham and Owen Thomas – The Paranoid Style in Liberal Politics: Conspiracy Theories and the Crisis of Liberal International Order
• Theo Kindynis – Conspiracy theories and theorising conspiracy

• Elisabeth Moerking, Elspeth Van Veeren, Harvey Dryer – ‘Taking the Red Pill: Conspiracy Theories, Gender, and the ‘elusive epistemologies’ of the Manosphere’
• Margot Tudor and Owen Thomas – Epistemic Violence in Archives of War: Thinking Beyond Transparency in British Inquiries into the Use of Force
• Edmund Clark – An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the United States Department of Defense Contract Spending from 2001/09/11-2021/08/30
• Luca Trenta – Secrecy, selective disclosures, and Congressional oversight: a comparative analysis of Guatemala 1954 and the ‘contra war’
• Clare Stevens – ‘Invisible Technicians’ as Agents of Technological Change: Engineers and Maintainers as/at the interfaces of secrecy infrastructures
• Elspeth Van Veeren – The Gender of Secrecy: the making of subjects in the liberal (dis)order
• Jeff Whyte – Epistemic Security, Ignorance, and the History of the ‘Disinformed Subject’