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DECEMBER 1996

ARTIFICIALITY: Monday 2nd December, 1996

THE "NUCLEAR": Sunday 15th December, 1996.

PERFECTION REIGNS:

THE COMPUTER CONTINGENCY: Tuesday 17 December, 1996.

MEANINGFUL SPORT PHILOSOPHY: Thursday 19 December, 1996.

'BRANSON BALLOONING': Sunday 22 December, 1996.

SHALLOW MEANING: Friday 27, December, 1996.

DEFINITIONAL MEANING: Saturday 28 December, 1996.

SPECIFIC MEANING: Sunday 29 December, 1996.

WHAT IS MEANINGFUL?: Sunday 29 December, 1996.

MOVEMENT/LIFE: Sunday 29 December, 1996.

ASSOCIATED UNIVERSALS: Monday 30 December, 1996.

ETHICS IS SPORT PHILOSOPHY: Tuesday 31 December, 1996.

NOVEMBER 1996

CHICKEN OR THE EGG?: Sunday 10 November, 1996.

SACRIFICE VS PRESENT LIVING: Thursday 14 November, 1996.

OCTOBER 1996

THE SOVEREIGNTY OF REASON: Friday 4 October, 1996.

THE SOVEREIGNTY OF REASON: Sunday 6 October, 1996.

COMPETITION IN YOUTH SPORT: Tuesday 8 October, 1996.

THE FUTURE OF SPORT: Wednesday 23 October, 1996.

SEPTEMBER 1996

DEFYING ONE RATIONALE: Sunday 1 September, 1996.

INTELLECT AND INFINITE REGRESS: Monday 2 September, 1996.

POWER, HISTORY, & THE GAMES: Friday 6 September, 1996.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: FROM A TO B: Wednesday 11 September, 1996.

ESTABLISHING THE RELATIONSHIP: Sunday 15 September, 1996.

WRITING: THE SKILL (REF): Friday 20 September, 1996.

FAIRNESS: Monday 23 September, 1996.

AUGUST 1996

LIMITATIONS OF LANGUAGE: Saturday 3 August, 1996.

OBSERVABLE MINDS: Thursday 15 August, 1996.

VISUAL INFORMATION: Saturday 17 August, 1996.

CHAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF ESSENCE: Monday 26 August, 1996.

ERROR OF MEASUREMENT: Tuesday 27 August, 1996.

REEXAMINING THE ISSUE: Wednesday 28 August, 1996.

EXPERIENCE VS PERCEPTION: Thursday 29 August, 1996.

JULY 1996

JUSTIFYING THE PURSUIT: Monday 1 July, 1996.

THE MIND AND BODY OF SCIENCE: Friday 5 July, 1996.

CHANGING THE GAME: Sunday 7 July, 1996.

GREED DESTROYS PERFECTION: Monday 8 July, 1996.

A NEED FOR QUALITIATIVE STUDY: Sunday 14 July, 1996.

STRIVING FOR UNITY: Monday 15 July, 1996.

KNOWLEDGE FROM REHEARSAL: Tuesday 16 July, 1996.

SPORT DEVELOPS INTELLECT: Wednesday 17 July, 1996.

MISLEADING INTUITION: Saturday 20 July, 1996.

HUMANITY AND THE DIVINE: Monday 22 July, 1996.

INTERPRETIVE EVALUATIONS: Monday 29 July, 1996.

RECIPROCITY & CO-DEPENDENCE: Tuesday 30 July, 1996.

DEFINITIONAL FALLACY: Wednesday 31 July, 1996.

JUNE 1996

INITIAL THOUGHT: Saturday 23 June, 1996.

MANUFACTURED REALITY: Monday 24 June, 1996.

MASTERING THE TOOLS: Tuesday 25 June, 1996.

AGGRESSION & WINNING: Thursday 27 June, 1996.

WORK & SIGNIFICANCE: Friday 28 June, 1996.
 

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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