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The Norwegian National Research Ethics Committee (FEK) in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD) will hold an open conference in Oslo on privacy and research ethics. The point of departure for the conference is the activation of the EU's GDPR and the Norwegian Privacy Law which is under examination in the parliament. 

J. Peter Burgess will hold an address entitled 'Om etikk og personvern [On ethics and privacy]'

How are societal values coupled with technical decision-making when it comes to energy security in specific countries or in relation to specific businesses or technologies? Bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds, the workshop will to start a discussion of the so-called ‘socio-technical imaginaries’ of energy security present today. This will add much needed nuance to energy discussions, which very often either stay at a very general, geopolitical level – or delve into technical risk assessments while forgetting the social context.

J. Peter Burgess will hold the keynote address 'What is new and what is old about the concept of energy security?'

The Chair of the Geopolitics of Risk, J. Peter Burgess, will speak about « L’expérience de la catastrophe » at the annual conference Catastrophes: prévision, prévention, précaution on May 17th at the University Paris-Sud.

A one-day conference based on the book Dans l’ombre des élus: une sociologie des collaborateurs politiques by Willy Beauvallet and Sébastien Michon will take place at Université Lumière Lyon 2. The focus will be on political collaborations behind elections.

Colloque organisé par la Faculté de droit de l’Université catholique de Lille et le Centre de recherches sur les relations entre le risque et le droit – C3RD