SPIN Autumn Newsletter

In this latest newsletter, we’re pleased to welcome new SPIN members, announce new opportunities and celebrate new publications.

Announcements

• Secrecy and Society invites submissions for the next special issue: ‘Subjugated Knowledges’, Volume 4, Issue 1. To see the Call for Papers and for further details, visit SPIN’s blog.
• The recording for the SPIN Research Methods Masterclass session on FOI/A held in is now available on YouTube.
• The recording the talk by Shereen Fernandez (LSE), ‘Secrecy and Redaction’, is now available on YouTube.
• We’re now planning events and talks for TB2. If you have a talk you would like to give, please email e.vanveeren@bris.ac.uk

Events

• 01 Oct, 3pm – Patricia Owens (Oxford), a book talk based on her newest book Erased on the invisibilisation of women from the IR canon. Online.
• 05 Nov, 3pm – Vera Zurbrügg (University Arts London), ‘Articulated Absences Archive‘, gold as ‘open secret’. Online.
• 19 Nov, 3pm – Jeff Whyte (Lancaster), SPIN talk based on his book on the birth of psychological warfare.Online.

See you calendar invites or message SPIN for one. All welcome.

New Members

• Please welcome Lucy Kentish to SPIN as the new SPIN Administrative Assistant. Lucy is a PhD researcher in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol and joins us having been an administrative assistant for Bristol’s Gender Research Centre. Lucy’s research focuses on education policies post-conflict, with a case study of Northern Ireland.

• Welcome to SPIN Tim Aistrope (Kent). Tim explores the relationship between political culture and world politics, especially the way it shapes our understanding of past events and potential futures. I have studied this relationship across case studies on conspiracy theory, social media, sport, the horror genre, and populist security practices, connecting each with how we make sense of the world around us and our place in it. You can find more on his project on populism, Covid-19 and Conspiracy Theories via the SPIN Project page.

• You can see a list and links for all our SPINsters on our People

New Publications and Press

• New article by SPINster Owen Thomas forthcoming in Security Dialogue. ‘Revealing (in)security: Scandals, guilty secrets, and the promise of counter-forensics’, Contact the author for pre-print version.

• New contribution to the SPIN A-Z series is now live, ‘F is for Five Eyes’ by Lydia Morgan (Birmingham).

• Our latest student essay is also available, ‘The Age of Innocence and Ignorance: Exploring the ‘silencing of the past’ in US foreign policy’.

As always, do let us know of any news we can share by emailing us at secrecyresearch@gmail.com