SPIN Autumn Newsletter

Dr. Elspeth Van Veere (Bristol)

September 29, 2023

SPIN Summer Newsletter 2023

Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol

Essay: G is for Gaslighting

Erin Jenkins, Graduate, Politics and IR, University of Bristol

SPIN Spring Newsletter

Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)

SPIN at the International Studies Association Annual Convention 2023

Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)

SPIN Art Commission – Emily Graham

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)

September 30, 2022

Event: Secrecy and Ignorance: SPIN Colloquium 2022

Funding Opportunity – SPIN Fellowships

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)

January 16, 2021

New Exhibition: SPIN, the A-Z of Secrecy and Ignorance at Bristol’s We the Curious Museum

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)

October 20, 2020

SPIN at the Annual Millennium Conference

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)

October 18, 2020

SPIN Art Commission: ‘Social Suffocation’, Olu Osinoiki⁣⁣, 2020

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)

October 16, 2020

Essay – Catfishing and the ocularcentric: how secrecy and visualities are interconnected

Sophie Peachey, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations BSc, University of Bristol

August 13, 2020

New publication by SPIN member -‘What do bisexuals look like? I don’t know!’ Visibility, gender, and safety among plurisexuals, 2020

Dr. Rosie Nelson, University of Bristol

Learning and Unlearning – A primer on critical race studies, postcolonial and decolonial work

Lauren Hutfield, University of Bristol

New publication by SPIN member: The Intelligence War Against the Irish Republican Army, 2020

Dr. Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University

SPIN awarded new funding for 2020-2021

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol

COVID-19 and the Politics of Knowledge: An Issue and Media Source Primer

Sif Beyer-Hunt, Jessie Carter, Audrey Goh, Ningning Li, and Sarah M. Natumanya, SPAIS Undergraduate and Postgraduate students, with Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol

Presentation – Commodification, heteronormativity and the interplay of sexuality and secrecy

Maddy Russell, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations BSc, University of Bristol

Essay – Spotify’s datamining practices: An example of surveillance capitalism?

Jekaterina Vinogradova, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations with Study Abroad BSc, University of Bristol

Essay – See it, Say it, (Panoptic) Sorted: The rail passenger as ‘inspector’ in a National Rail surveillance campaign

Alice Chancellor, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations with Study Abroad BSc, University of Bristol

New publication – National Security, the Democratic Oversight Narrative and Freedom of Information

Dr. Peter Finn (Kingston University)

February 27, 2020

New publication – Everyday secrecy: Oral history and the social life of a top-secret weapons research establishment during the Cold War

Prof. William Walters, Carleton University

January 24, 2020

Ignorance experts (yes that is a thing) welcome!

November 6, 2019

New publication by SPIN member – Secrecy’s subjects: special operators in the US Shadow War

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol

October 21, 2019

Essay – Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre

Joanna Coulson, Graduate, Politics and Internationa Relations, University of Bristol

Essay – The Secret Ballot

Matt O'Brien, Graduate, Politics and International Relations, University of Bristol

Essay – The white (silent) powerful woman: A Critical Gendered Analysis of Secrecy in Bier’s ‘Bird Box’

Liberty O’Hagan, Graduate, Politics and International Graduate, University of Bristol

Conference Panel CFP: Critically Secret: Knowledge-Making and Unmaking in International Relations

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol

Essay – Researching Secrecy Amidst the Ruins of Orford Ness

Professor William Walters, Benjamin Meaker Visiting Research Professor, University of Bristol

December 24, 2018

Workshop CFP: Secrecy and (In)Security: New Perspectives

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol

January 1, 2018