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DECEMBER 1999

LIBERAL HUMANISM AND GENETICS: Wednesday 1 December, 1999.

THE VIRTUAL ARGUMENT: Thursday 2 December, 1999.

CRITICISING THE VIRTUAL POSITION:
Sunday 5 December, 1999.

EARNED ADVANTAGE IN SPORT:Monday 6 December, 1999.

THESIS PLAN: Monday 6 December, 1999.

SOMETHING NEW: Wednesday 8 December, 1999.

BIOETHICS AND SPORTS ETHICS - TOO MUCH FOR ONE PHD?: Monday 13 December, 1999.

RETURNING TO CHESS: Wednesday 23 December, 1999.

THE CHIMPANZEE'S RIGHTS: Friday 24 December, 1999.

COMPUTER GAMING, CHESS, AND VIRTUAL SPORT:
Friday 24 December, 1999.

FINISHING THE BOOK: Monday 27 December, 1999.

SHOTGUN PHILOSOPHY: MILLENNIUM: Wednesday 29 December, 1999.

NOVEMBER 1999

THE LOW-USER WEBSITE: Wednesday 3 November, 1999.

STUDENT LIFE: ETHICS, VALUE AND THE UNSPEAKABLE:
Wednesday 3 November, 1999.

THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL BASIS OF ENHANCEMENT: Friday 5 November, 1999

WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?: Friday 5 November, 1999

IS RISK SUFFICIENT?: Monday 8 November, 1999.

WHAT COUNTS AS ENHANCEMENT?: Monday 8 November, 1999.

CAMERAS IN TOILETS: Tuesday 9 November, 1999.

THE DAY DEFINITIONS TURNED ON US:
Thursday 11 November, 1999.

THE CONCEPT OF 'AWARD': VALUE IN CYBERSPACE:
Tuesday 16 November, 1999.

DEFINING A BACKGROUND: Wednesday 24 November, 1999.

STRIVING FOR UTOPIA IS MORALLY UNSOUND:
Thursday 25 November, 1999

REGULATING THE INTERNET TO PROTECT OUR DIGNITY: Tuesday 30 November, 1999.

OCTOBER 1999

AN OBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVE ON GENETIC ENGINEERING:
Monday 4 October, 1999.

EXPECTATIONS ON THE ENGINEERED CHILD: Thursday 7 October, 1999

THE PERFECT BODY: Sunday 10 October, 1999.

WHAT IS THE HUMAN?: Monday 18 October, 1999.

SHOULD PARENT'S BE ALLOWED TO ENGINEER THEIR CHILDREN?: Wednesday 20 October, 1999.

ARE GENES US?: Thursday 28 October, 1999.

ARE GENES U.S.?: Sunday 31 October, 1999.

SEPTEMBER 1999

THE INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SPORT: Thursday 16 September, 1999.

IAPS 1999: Sunday 26 September, 1999.

DIFFERENCE AND THE OTHER IN WESTERN CULTURE: THE CYBORG: Sunday 26 September, 1999.

THE CYBORG:

AUGUST 1999

ON THE ADEQUACY OF JUSTICE: Thursday 26 August, 1999.

JUSTICE IN EREWHON: Thursday 26 August, 1999.

JULY 1999

FIDELITY AND CYBERSEX: Thursday 1 July, 1999.

MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, VIRTUALLY ME: Sunday 4 July, 1999.

SHOULD HUMAN CLONING BE ALLOWED?: Monday 5 July, 1999.

VIRTUAL REALITY, GENETIC TECHNOLOGY, SPORTS EQUIPMENT, ET CETERA: Monday 5 July, 1999.

ANONYMITY IN CYBERSPACE: Sunday 11 July, 1999.

HORSE RACING AND HUMAN LIMITS TO PERFORMANCE: Sunday 11 July, 1999.

FROM RECORD TO RITUAL?: Wednesday 21 July, 1999.

WHAT CONTEXT FOR PERFECTION?: Thursday 22 July, 1999.

THE OVERUSE OF HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD: Wednesday 27 July, 1999.

'PLAYING GOD' IN A 'BRAVE NEW WORLD':
Wednesday 27 July, 1999.

ON THE SIGNIFICANCE/INSIGNIFICANCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN SPORT: Saturday 31 July, 1999.

JUNE 1999

MARGINAL INFLUENCE: TECHNOLOGY IN SPORT: Saturday 5 June, 1999.

LEFTIST INFLUENCE: Sunday 6 June, 1999.

THE IMPLICATIONS OF MY RE-EVALUATING OF CYBERSPACE: Sunday 6 June, 1999.

FOCUSING ON THE POST-HUMAN: Tuesday 8 June, 1999.

CHANGING IDENTITY IN CYBERSPACE: Thursday 17 June, 1999.

VIRTUAL REALITY: THE PICTURE: Sunday 20 June, 1999.

GENETIC PROSPECT AND THE UNIQUE ATHLETE: Monday 21 June, 1999.

THE MATRIX: Thursday 24 June, 1999.

ARE WE REALLY CYBORGS ALREADY?: Wednesday 30 June, 1999.

MAY 1999

LENGTHENING THE LIFE-SPAN OF AN ATHLETE: Saturday 1 May, 1999.

MY REDUCING OF TECHNOLOGY: Tuesday 4 May, 1999.

'REAL', 'NATURAL' & 'INTEGRITY': Sunday 9 May, 1999.

IMMORTALITY VS AFTERLIFE: Sunday 9 May, 1999.

KANT AND THE GOODNESS OF GOOD WILL: Wednesday 19 May, 1999.

GENETIC ENGINEERING AND DRUG USE IN SPORT: Thursday 20 May, 1999.

THE IMBALANCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN TENNIS: Thursday 27 May, 1999.

THERE HAS GOT TO BE A LIMIT: Friday 28 May, 1999.

APRIL 1999

PREPARING: Thursday 1 April, 1999.

DONE: Thursday 8 April, 1999.

MARCH 1999

HEADACHED: Friday 5 March, 1999.

BREASTFEEDING: Friday 26 March, 1999.

THE AMAZON RESEARCHER:Monday 29 March, 1999.

ARE THE CLAIMS MADE ABOUT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXAGGERATED?:

WE ARE STILL HUMAN!: Monday 29 March, 1999.

CRYONICS AND RELIGION: Tuesday 30 March, 1999.

POST-EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS AND THE TRANSHUMAN CONDITION: Tuesday 30 March, 1999.

FEBRUARY 1999

SCREENING REALITY: Wednesday 24 February, 1999.

CYBER-SEX: Wednesday 24 February, 1999.

JANUARY 1999

THE WINDOW: Wednesday 6 January, 1999.

VIRTUALLY NOTHING: Thursday 7 January, 1999.

VIRTUALLY VIRTUAL: Friday 8 January, 1999.

THE BODY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION: Sunday 10 January, 1999.

TECHNOLOGY; A WOMAN'S BRAVE NEW WORLD: Sunday 10 January, 1999.

VIRTUAL REALITY: LIBERATING THE LEISURE PURSUIT?:
Monday 11 January, 1999.

LISTEN TO THE TEACHER: Thursday 21 January, 1999.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED ATHLETE: Sunday 24 January, 1999.

VIRTUAL ATTENTION SPANS: Wednesday 27 January, 1999.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENETIC SCREENING: Wednesday 27 January, 1999.

 
 

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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