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SPIN Spring Newsletter
Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
March 23, 2023
SPIN at the International Studies Association Annual Convention 2023
Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
March 22, 2023
Book Launch – The Covert Colour Line
Dr. Oliver Kearns, University of Bristol
March 18, 2023
Rescheduled Event – Secrecy and Ignorance: SPIN Colloquium 2022
October 17, 2022
Conspiracy Theory Series
Harvye Dryer, Politics BSc Student, University of Bristol
October 10, 2022
SPIN Art Commission – Emily Graham
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
September 30, 2022
Book Launch – Performing Deception
Prof. Brian Rappert (University of Exeter)
September 7, 2022
Event: Secrecy and Ignorance: SPIN Colloquium 2022
July 19, 2022
SPIN’s Twitter hour co-hosted with @DefenceResNet and @womenknowintel
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
July 1, 2022
June 2022 Newsletter
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
June 24, 2022
Recording – Book discussion of ‘Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism & Migration Control’
Hannah Jones (University of Warwick)
May 30, 2022
Recording – Poisons and Podcasts lunchtime talk by Dr. Brett Edwards
Dr. Brett Edwards (University of Bath)
May 25, 2022
Essay – The Great Global Warming Conspiracy: A Critical Analysis of the Political Implications of a Conspiracy Theory
Clara Rayner, Economics and Politics BSc Student, University of Bristol
May 13, 2022
Book discussion – Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism & Migration Control
Hannah Jones (University of Warwick)
February 25, 2022
Lunchtime Talk: Poisons and Podcasts, March 7th
Dr. Brett Edwards (University of Bath)
February 7, 2022
February 2022 Newsletter
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
January 31, 2022
Expression of Interest: Teaching Secrecy
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
January 19, 2022
Adam Sisman on John le Carré: Writing and Researching Elusive Subjects
Adam Sisman, Author of 'John le Carré: The Biography'
January 17, 2022
Democracy Lives in Darkness: Discussion with Professor Emily Van Duyn
Emily Van Duyn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
January 5, 2022
Back by popular demand… Magical Encounters: Presented by Prof. Brian Rappert
November 29, 2021
ISA-NE Secrecy panel
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
November 17, 2021
Book Panel Recording – Professor William Walters’ ‘State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary’
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
November 15, 2021
Photo Commission: SPIN-MPF
SPIN Admin
November 12, 2021
October 2021 SPIN Round-up Newsletter
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol)
November 5, 2021
Adam Sisman on John le Carré: Writing and Researching Elusive Subjects
Adam Sisman, Author of 'John le Carré: The Biography'
November 4, 2021
‘Revelations’ Online Workshop
Prof. Brian Rappert (University of Exeter)
October 25, 2021
Magical Encounters: Presented by Prof. Brian Rappert
Prof. Brian Rappert (University of Exeter)
October 11, 2021
Charles W. Mills: Legacies of Thought in Bristol
Julia Paulson, School of Education, University of Bristol; Education, Justice and Memory (EdJAM)
October 6, 2021
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
SPIN Publication – Ruination is a Form of Time Travel
James Mansfield, PhD Researcher (University of Reading) 2021 SPIN Fellow
August 9, 2021
Essay – Ignorance: An Undemocratic Threat from Above
Nicola Fincham, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations BSc, University of Bristol
August 2, 2021
Call for abstracts: ISA North East Virtual Conference – November 4th to 6th
SPIN Admin
July 20, 2021
New publication – Counting the dead and making the dead count: configuring data and accountability
Prof. Brian Rappert (Exeter)
July 6, 2021
LIVE: SPIN-We the Curious A-Z of Secrecy and Ignorance
SPIN Admin
June 22, 2021
New Publication – Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education
Dr. Manjeet Ramgotra (SPIN Visiting Researcher/SOAS)
June 22, 2021
Call for Abstracts: EISA Early Career Workshop 2021
May 7, 2021
‘#Classified: The CIA on Twitter’ Research Talk by SPIN Fellow Dr. Louise Pears
SPIN Admin
April 22, 2021
Introducing our 2021 SPIN Fellowship Recipients
April 22, 2021
New Publication – A Critical Analysis of the Impacts & Discursive Framework of Surveillance Capitalism
Mikey Ettlinger (University of Bristol)
March 2, 2021
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
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
August 7, 2020
Learning and Unlearning – A primer on critical race studies, postcolonial and decolonial work
Lauren Hutfield, University of Bristol
July 20, 2020
New publication by SPIN member: The Intelligence War Against the Irish Republican Army, 2020
Dr. Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University
July 14, 2020
SPIN awarded new funding for 2020-2021
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol
July 10, 2020
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
May 14, 2020
Presentation – Commodification, heteronormativity and the interplay of sexuality and secrecy
Maddy Russell, Final Year Student, Politics and International Relations BSc, University of Bristol
May 7, 2020
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
April 30, 2020
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
April 22, 2020
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
July 22, 2019
Essay – The Secret Ballot
Matt O'Brien, Graduate, Politics and International Relations, University of Bristol
June 22, 2019
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
June 22, 2019
Conference Panel CFP: Critically Secret: Knowledge-Making and Unmaking in International Relations
Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, University of Bristol
May 22, 2019
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
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