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DECEMBER 2001

HIGHER EDUCATION: Tuesday 11 December, 2001.

CYBER SINGLE: Wednesday 12 December, 2001.

PLAYER: Thursday 13 December, 2001.

A GRAND THEORY:

AUTHORS GET PAID:

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ONLINE:

CONCLUSIONS: Saturday 15 December, 2001.

EVERY WORD AS HYPERTEXT: Monday 17 December, 2001.

PRENATAL PARENTAL FREEDOM: RIGHT OR PRIVILEGE?: Friday 28 December, 2001.

LESS SET IN OUR WAYS:

ENDNOTE, ENDMEMORY: Saturday 29 December, 2001.

NOVEMBER 2001

PHILOSOPHY OF SPORT: Tuesday 6 November, 2001.

WHY AREN'T THERE SWIMMING CONTESTS WITH FLIPPERS:
Thursday 8 November, 2001.

FRAMING THE QUESTION: DRUG USE IN SPORT: Thursday 8 November, 2001.

JOURNAL REVIEW: Friday 16 November, 2001.

REAL-LIFE SEX: Saturday 24 November, 2001.

ON ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION: A PARTICULAR KIND OF LIBERTY: Saturday 24 November, 2001.

THE JOURNAL IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL: Sunday 25 November, 2001.

WHAT IS A HOMEPAGE: Sunday 25 November, 2001.

NEW POSITION: Thursday 29 November, 2001.

OCTOBER 2001

THESIS: ARISTOTLE VS. HEIDEGGER ON TECHNOLOGY: Monday 1 October, 2001.

SI: Wednesday 3 October, 2001.

MICROSOFT OR MICROFOSSIL?: Wednesday 3 October, 2001.

THE ENGLISH GIRL: Wednesday 17 October, 2001.

THE INVISIBLE ATHLETE: Tuesday 23 October, 2001.

RE-LOCALISING THE OLYMPIC GAMES: Friday 26 October, 2001

HARMS AND GM: Monday 29 October, 2001.

SEPTEMBER 2001

I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT: Tuesday 4 Setember, 2001.

SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCE:

THE MORE PEOPLE THAT DISAGREE, THE BETTER:

NOTES FROM A WHITE, MIDDLE-CLASS, HETEROSEXUAL, MALE, FROM ENGLAND:

I CANNOT DO ANYMORE: Wednesday 26 September, 2001.

AUGUST 2001


THESIS - STARTING AGAIN: Sunday 12 August, 2001.

THE LOGICAL ENDS OF PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT: Sunday 12 August, 2001.

THESIS: Monday 20 August, 2001.

JULY 2001

SEXUALITY: Tuesday 3 July, 2001.

THE PROBLEM WITH OPPOSING SECTS: Monday 9 July, 2001.

FAIR ALL THE WAY DOWN?: Monday 9 July, 2001.

PASSION AND RESTRAINT: Thursday 19 July, 2001

APRIL 2001

ON MEMORY: Monday 9 April, 2001.

WHEN CAN ONE BEGIN TO SPEAK?: Friday 13 April, 2001.

WITHOUT A PLAN: Friday 20 April, 2001.

MARCH 2001

THOUGHTS, QUESTIONS, AND TIME: Wednesday 7 March, 2001.

MY BACKGROUND AND EXPERTISE: Wednesday 28 March, 2001.

FEBRUARY 2001

SELF WORTH: Thursday 1 February, 2001.

UNABLE: Sunday 4 February, 2001.

M: Sunday 4 February, 2001.

THESIS: Monday 5 February, 2001.

CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS VS. ETHICS: Tuesday 6 February, 2001.

MY ACADEMIC WRITING: Tuesday 6 February, 2001.

UNDERSTANDING HOW TO USE MY ARTICLES: Tuesday 6 February, 2001.

TIME TO REFLECT: Wednesday 14 February, 2001.

JANUARY 2001

FINALLY: Monday 8 January, 2001.

EMOTIONS REVISITED: Monday 8 January, 2001.

ISOLATION: Monday 8 January, 2001.

UNCHAIN MY HEART: Wednesday 10 January, 2001.

NIETZSCHE'S VIRTUE: Thursday 11 January, 2001.

ENLIGHTENMENT AND RATIONALITY -

WHAT'S NEXT?: Thursday 11 January, 2001.

A PERIOD OF INDECISION: Thursday 11 January, 2001.

ON THE TEMPORALITY OF EMOTIONS: Thursday 11 January, 2001.

ANIMAL RIGHTS AND ANIMAL WRONGS: Wednesday 17 January, 2001

ON CRITICISM: Thursday 18 January, 2001.

PRACTICAL ETHICS?: Saturday 20 January, 2001.

JUSTICE AND FAIR PLAY: Saturday 20 January, 2001.

IMAGINE: Saturday 20 January, 2001.

YOU DON'T DESERVE ANY OF THEM: Tuesday 23 January, 2001.

INTUITIVE VS. CRITICAL REASONING: Thursday 25 January, 2001

HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED: Wednesday 31 January, 2001

CHRISTMAS: Wednesday 31 January, 2001
 
 

 

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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