SPIN September Newsletter

September 15, 2021

Essay – The Role Ignorance Plays in US Politics

Grace Williamson-Beare, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations BSc, University of Bristol

September 13, 2021

Announcement: New SPIN-ster, ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Chloe Peacock joins with a project on ignorance and UK criminal justice

Dr Chloe Peacock, ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow (October 2021), University of Bristol

August 23, 2021

Book Launch – Professor William Walters’ new book: State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary

August 18, 2021

SPIN Panel – Twenty Years of the Global War on Terror: Looking back, looking forward

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)

August 11, 2021

New Publication – Ruination is a Form of Time Travel

James Mansfield, PhD Researcher (University of Reading) 2021 SPIN Fellow

Essay – Ignorance: An Undemocratic Threat from Above

Nicola Fincham, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations BSc, University of Bristol

Call for abstracts: ISA North East Virtual Conference – November 4th to 6th

New publication – Counting the dead and making the dead count: configuring data and accountability

Prof. Brian Rappert (Exeter)

LIVE: SPIN-We the Curious A-Z of Secrecy and Ignorance

New Publication – Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education

Dr. Manjeet Ramgotra (SPIN Visiting Researcher/SOAS)

Call for Abstracts: EISA Early Career Workshop 2021

‘#Classified: The CIA on Twitter’ Research Talk by SPIN Fellow Dr. Louise Pears

Introducing our 2021 SPIN Fellowship Recipients

New Publication – A Critical Analysis of the Impacts & Discursive Framework of Surveillance Capitalism

Mikey Ettlinger (University of Bristol)

Brigstow Institute Research Funding and Fellowship Announcement

Patterson Deppen (University of Bristol)

February 1, 2021

The Magic of Social Life

Prof. Brian Rappert (Exeter)

January 28, 2021

Funding Opportunity – SPIN Fellowships

Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)

January 16, 2021

BISA Conference CFP: Forget International Studies?

Patterson Deppen (University of Bristol)

December 19, 2020

New Publication – Seeing and unseeing Prevent’s racialized borders

Dr. Nadya Ali (University of Sussex)

November 23, 2020

New Publication – Security in the Balance: How Britain Tried to Keep its Iraq War Secrets

Dr. Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)

November 3, 2020

New Publication – Truth and Consequences? Reconceptualizing the Politics of Exposure

Dr. Lisa Stampnitzky (University of Sheffield)

October 29, 2020

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

Decolonising the SPAIS Curriculum: New Prelim Report Released

Lauren Hutfield (Bristol)

October 12, 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