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with Jack McConnell, first minister of Scotland, just before the end of the women's marathon  

Athens 2004
Olympic Games

Along with my colleague Dr. Beatriz Garcia, we were funded by the British |Academy to conduct research in Athens. We had both followed the development of the Games since 2000, having been in and out of Athens since then for work in relation to the International Olympic Academy.



London 2012 Bid
During the Games, Dr. Garcia and I met for lunch with Cherie Blair, Tessa Jowell, Ric Birch, Nigel Short, at the invitation of Jude Kelly, Director for Culture and Education at London 2012 bid. The discussion was about the value of culture and education in the Olympic Movement.

London 2012 seems genuinely committed to these aspects of the Games, particularly acknowledging the role of Olympic Truce.

Olympic Truce The Olympic Truce
The Olympic Truce project has existed in its modern incarnation since the IOC revived it in 1991. Since then, it has slowly gained recognition though more work needs to be done.

During the Olympics, we participated in a function about Olympic Truce, which was attended by Prime Minister Tony Blair and Cherie Blair, Prince Albert of Monacco, Queen Sofia of Spain, Prime Minister of Greece, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and other delegates who expressed their support for Truce.

ZPC Zappeion Press Centre
Athens 2004

The Zappeion Press Centre was arranged by the muncipality of Athens to cater for non-accredited media. It was the focus of our research during the Olympics, where we tried to establish the effectiveness and value of such a centre for the Olympic host city.

  

ICSSPE Pre-Olympic Congress
Thessaloniki, Greece

Every summer Olympics a scientific congress takes place, which is hosted by the International Concul of Sport Science and Physical Education. The conference has wide support and included keynote speeches from XXX

International Olympic Academy Participants Association
Athens 2004

The IOAPA was one of the few academic meetings to take place in Athens during the Games. It was held at the VISA Olympics Reunion park, which was an excellent venue. While there were a handful of people we knew, there were also many new people. This IOAPA goes on for nearly 40 years now and many people have passed through the Academy..		  

Links
Amateur Athletic Federation of Los Angeles /
Athens 2004 Olympic Games /
Culture @ the Olympics /
International Olympic Academy /
International Olympic Committee /
Olympic Scholars Network /
Olympic Studies Centre, BCN /
The Olympics and Philosophy /
 
       
 

resarch interests

art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology

just published

Miah, A. (2008, Aug 3) A Posthuman Olympics, Washington Post, in press.

Miah, A. (2008, July 31) Inside the mind of a Marathon man, Nature, 454,583-4.

Miah, A. (2008) Paralympics 2.0, Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center.

Miah, A. (2008) Letter to Utopia: A Reply to Bostrom, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).

Miah, A. (2008) Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).

my next event

Glasgow, Scotland i (30 Sept, 2008)
Our Cultural & Moral Commitment to Discover, Create, and Support New Life Forms, for LESS REMOTE: The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium, International Astronautical Congress, SEC, Glasgow, Scotland [abstract]

Beijing, China c (Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics, International Symposium on Olympic Research, Beijing National University and University of Western Ontario [outline].

Olympia, Greece i (July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Academy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines].

in press

Miah, A. (2008) Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital. In: Wint, S. Ethical Futures. The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA), London.

Miah, A. (2008) Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence. Hale, B. (Ed) Philosophy Looks at Chess . Open Court Press.

Miah, A. (2008). Posthumanism: A Critical History. In Gordijn, B. & Chadwick, R. 'Medical Enhancements and Posthumanity. Springer.

Miah, A. (2008) 'Blessed are the Forgetful': The Ethics of Memory Modification in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In Shapshay, S. (Ed) Bioethics Through Film, Johns Hopkins University Press.
 

just published

Zwart, N. H. (2007). "Genomics and self-knowledge: implications for societal research and debate." New Genetics and Society 26(2): 181-202.

Mitchell, C. B., E. D. Pellegrino, et al. (2007). Biotechnology and the Human Good. Washington, DC., Georgetown University Press.

Peters, H. P., J. T. Lang, et al. (2007). "Culture and Technological Innovation: Impact of Institutional Trust and Appreciation of Nature on Attitudes towards Food Biotechnology in the USA and Germany." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 19(2): 191-220.

House of Commons Select Committee, Science And Technology (2007) Report on Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport.

Koolstra CM, Bos MJW, Vermeulen IE. Through which medium should science information professionals communicate with the public: television or the internet? Journal of Science Communication 2006;5(3):1-8.

   

interviews

May, 2008
The technological enhancement of man, Danish Broadcasting Corporation

April, 2008
Evening Standard
Beijing 2008 Olympics and Protest

March, 2008
The Sports Factor, ABC Radio, Blogging at the Beijing Olympics

Feb, 2008
ESPN Magazine

flashback

 
recent places
         
Beijing, China c (5 Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics [outline] 		  Olympia, Greece i (20 July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Acadmy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines]. 		  Leeds, UK c (16 July, 2008)
Ambush Media: Journalistic Freedom & Media Politics at the Beijing Olympics, Olympic Politics and Protest, Leeds Metropolitan University [abstract].
         
London, UK ia (4 July, 2008)
Research Cluster on Innovative Media for a Digital Economy: Health Industries Workshop, British Medical Association House.		   Liverpool, UK i (July, 2008)
Keynote, Body & Economy, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, FACT. 		  Chicago , USA ia (Jun, 2008)
 2016 Olympic Bid conference, the contribution of the arts.
         
San Francisco , USA i (Jun, 2008)
Bioethics and Doping colloquium, St Mary's College. 		  London, UK c (Jun, 2008)
with Ana Adi, Framing Beijing's Olympic Bid: Human Rights Advocacy Groups and Online Mainstream International Media, Changes and Challenges: China’s Media, University of Westminster, London, [abstract] 		  Oxford, UK i (May, 2008)
Guest Seminar, St James Martin Institute for the 21st Century, Programme on Biomedical Ethics and Future of Humanity Institute
 
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