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In this final episode of the latest series of the SPIN Podcast, Dr Elspeth Van Veeren and Dr Peter Finn discuss how secrecy impacts democracy through an analysis of official government records in countries such as the US, UK, and Canada. Dr. Finn shares research from his recent book including the complexity of official records and how they are not neutral documents, examples of classified informat...

In this episode of the SPIN Podcast series, Lewis Bush shares details of what led him into his visual and archival work on security and secrecy, sharing details of his latest projects: Depravity's Rainbow and Trading Secrets. In Depravity's Rainbow, he explored the 'secret' and controversial histories of US space exploration using archival work, site visits and cyanotype printing. In his work in p...

In this next episode of the SPIN Podcast series, Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren provides an overview of the concept of 'secrecy games' that is at the heart of the paper recently published in Review of International Studies, co-authored with Dr. Clare Stevens (Cardiff) and Dr. Amaha Senu. You can also download and read the paper at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-st...

In this week's episode of the SPIN Podcast, Professor Brian Rappert is in conversation with Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren on revelations, secrecy, and his new book project. Inspired by a longstanding interest in thinking through revelation, Brian outlines some of its complex features -- its relationship with secrecy, its involvement in state security special ops, the nuances of revelation associated with...

In the next in our new series of SPIN podcast episodes, Dr. Luca Trenta discusses the history of US government involvement in assassinations and targeted killings from the Cold War era to today. Dr Trenta shares insights from his research and latest book including the evolving justifications around labels like "assassination" versus "targeted killing", the expanding legal interpretations of self-d...

Kate Thornton, our first graduate podcaster, reads her entry from SPIN's A-Z series: O is for Omertà. This talk explains how omertà, which literally means silence, has developed into a code of secrecy and loyalty for mafia members. By keeping their criminal activities secret from authorities, the mafia is able to operate freely and influence society. The code of omertà ensures solidarity and coope...

In this episode, SPIN member Dr. Oliver Kearns presents the findings from his new book, The Covert Colour Line. Oliver argues that postwar Western intelligence represents an emergency response to anti-colonialism. As European empires collapsed, intelligence analysts scrambled to come up with ways of studying new independent governments and populations, while still defending the right of the US and...

In this episode, Dr Thomas Leahy, lecturer in British and Irish politics and contemporary history at Cardiff University, talks about how his work on Northern Ireland conflict, peace process and post-1998 politics, interacts with secrecy. 

In this episode, Lisa Graves, Curator of World Cultures at the Bristol Museum talks about the ‘Do you believe in magic?’ exhibition that features over 200 objects and stories that reveal how magic has been used to heal, hunt and harm across the world.

In this episode Rosie Nelson, PhD student at Bristol University  talks about the meaning of secrecy for bisexual people.

In this episode, Mike Bourne, reader at Queen's University Belfast talks about sensing secrecy.

In this episode Prof. Brian Rappert from the University of Exeter talks with Elspeth Van Veeren about his latest project about magic.

In this episode, Prof. Brian Rappert from the University of Exeter talks with Elspeth Van Veeren about his book The Dis-eases of Secrecy.

In this episode of SPIN podcast, Kirtis Clarke and Alice Nutley talks with Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren about designing a protest mask.

In this  episode of SPIN podcast, Mike Bourne, reader at Queen's University Belfast talks with Elspeth van Veeren about sensing secrecy.

In this episode Dr. Oliver Kearns, Researcher in Political Science in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol talks with Elspeth Van Veeren about Secrecy and the audible.

In this episode Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren, Lecturer in Political Science in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol talks about Secrecy subjects and manhunting.

In this episode, Dr. Owen Thomas, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations from the University of Exeter talks about Searching for Grenfell Tower’s guilty secret.

In this episode of SPIN podcast, PhD student Tim Duroux talks with Elspeth Van Veeren about Tunnels and Bunkers, and starting a PhD on secrecy.

This podcast was recorded in a workshop hosted by the Secrecy and Security Working Group, Global Insecurities Centre, at the University of Bristol in November 5th, 2018. In this audio Professor William Walters (Professor of Politics in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology & Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa) talks about the production of secrecy.

This podcast was recorded in a workshop hosted by the Secrecy and Security Working Group, Global Insecurities Centre, at the University of Bristol in November 5th, 2018. In this episode, Dr. Owen Thomas from the University of Exeter talks about the connection between scandal, secrecy and security practices. 

This podcast was recorded in a workshop hosted by the Secrecy and Security Working Group, Global Insecurities Centre, at the University of Bristol in November 5th, 2018. In this episode Clare Stevens from the University of Bristol talks about the US official discourses and narratives about cybersecurity. 

This podcast was recorded in a workshop hosted by the Secrecy and Security Working Group, Global Insecurities Centre, at the University of Bristol in November 5th, 2018. In this episode, Dr. Lisa Stampnitzky from the University of Sheffield talks about common understandings in academia about secrecy.

This podcast was recorded in a workshop hosted by the Secrecy and Security Working Group, Global Insecurities Centre, at the University of Bristol in November 5th, 2018. In this episode, award winning photographer Edmund Clark talks about his work on terror and anti-terror and specifically on his work on CIA secret prison work. 

This podcast was recorded in a workshop hosted by the Secrecy and Security Working Group, Global Insecurities Centre, at the University of Bristol in November 5th, 2018. In this episode, Professor William Walters (Professor of Politics in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology & Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa) talks about secrecy and security.