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words in progress

2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2004 / 2003 / 2002 / 2001 / 2000 / 1999 / 1998 / 1997 / 1996


DECEMBER 2002:

AUTONOMY, DIGNITY, HEALTH, PERSONHOOD:
Tuesday 3 December, 2002

POSTMODERN: Thursday 12 December, 2002.

ON THE DISSOLUTION OF DISCIPLINES IN BRITISH HIGHER EDUCATION: Saturday 14 December, 2002.

BEING CULTURALLY LOCATED:

CV BUILDING & RESEARCH: Thursday 19 December, 2002.

NOVEMBER 2002:

NOTHING: Thursday 7 November, 2002.

HYPERTROPHIES, MONSTROSITIES, AND TERATOMA:
Monday 11 November, 2002.

ANYTHING: Thursday 14 November, 2002.

OCTOBER 2002:

WORDS: Wednesday 2 October, 2002.

EMPTY ROOM: Wednesday 9 October, 2002.

TRUTH:

SALVATION: Monday 21 October, 2002.

AUGUST 2002

DIGNITY: Tuesday 6 August 2002.

MORAL BADNESS: Wednesday 7 August, 2002.

STRUCTURE: Saturday 10 August, 2002.

SUPER-SPECS: Tuesday 13 August, 2002.

WHY BIOETHICISTS LOVE SPORT (AND WHY YOU NEVER KNEW IT):

THE PROBLEM WITH POLITICS: Friday 23 August, 2002.

DOWNLOAD: Sunday 25 August, 2002.

COSMETIC ENHANCEMENTS: Thursday 29 August, 2002.

JULY 2002

PARTIAL HUMANS: Monday 1 July, 2002.

ANSWERING QUESTIONS: Wednesday 3 July, 2002.

BCN: Friday 5 July, 2002.

MEDICALISATION, ETC: Thursday 18 July, 2002.

GP: Tuesday 23 July, 2002.

3 WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT: Wednesday 31 July, 2002.

JUNE 2002

WHAT´S WRONG WITH EUGENICIDE?: Monday 3 June, 2002.

POST-HUMANISM: Friday 7 June, 2002

TV HAS MORE RIGHTS THAN ATHLETES:

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT GAMERS:

WEBSITE AMBITIONS:

LEVY, FOOTBALL, AND GAME PLAYING: Monday 10 June, 2002

SPAM!: Saturday 29 June, 2002

A THEORY OF TIMING: Sunday 30 June, 2002

MAY 2002

SPORT & MEDICINE?: Friday 17 May, 2002

CAN YOU SPARE ANY CHANGE?:

FRANKENSTEIN WAS HUMAN: Wednesday 22 May, 2002

MEDIA AND BIOETHICS:

DO I WANT A CREDIT CARD?: Wednesday 29 May 2002.

APRIL 2002

IDENTITY: Tuesday 9 April, 2002

SEX OR CIGARETTES? AN INQUIRY INTO (IM)MORAL PREFERENCE: Wednesday 18 April, 2002

JANUARY 2002

IN BETWEEN: Monday 7 January, 2002

HIT 'SPACE' TO CONTINUE:

NOT SUPER-HUMAN, NON-HUMAN:

BETWEEN BRILLIANCE AND IDIOCY:

A WEBSITE FOR PAPER: Tuesday 8 January, 2002.

COMMUNICATION REFERENCE DATABASES:

DID EINSTEIN PAINT WALLS?:

AGAINST INTERACTION:

DISTINGUISING TEXT AND IMAGE:

ETEXTS RECREATE LEGENDS:

A LITTLE HUBRIS: Wednesday 9 January, 2002.

CIRCULAR TEXT:

A DECADE OF BRITISH TV COMEDY: Thursday 10 January, 2001.

HYPERBLINK:

GRAMMAR IN CYBERSPACE:

DISAPPEARANCE: Monday 14 January, 2002.

UNTITLED: Wednesday 16 January, 2002.

 

 

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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