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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