Conference

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.

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 

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.

Professor J. Peter Burgess will speak at the Digital Media and Democratic Risks conference at the Public Policy Forum in Ottawa on April 4, 2018. The event is taking place at the Canada Council for the Arts and will touch on the challenges for democracy in the digital age, threats to existing journalism, policy opportunities and best policy solutions as well as social media and democracy. 

Afin de renforcer la lutte contre le terrorisme, la France, l'Allemagne et le Royaume-Uni se sont dotés de nouveaux outils permettant la collecte massive et le traitement de données personnelles. Les juridictions européennes (Cour européennes des droits de l'Homme, Cour de justice de l'Union Européenne) ont de plus en plus souvent l'occasion de se prononcer sur les droits nationaux.

Le 29 et 30 mars dernier, avait lieu à l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 le colloque « Technosphère et droit, nouveaux phénomènes, nouvelles épistémologies ». 

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

J. Peter Burgess spoke on 'Neoliberalism, globalisation and security' at the first annual Prague (In)security Conference organised by the Institute for International Relations and the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

7-8 December, 2017
University of Tampere