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DECEMBER 2003

UNPOPULAR CULTURE: Thursday 11 December, 2003.

NOVEMBER 2003

DREAM: Sunday 2 November, 2003.

NEW POSITIONS:

SERIOUSNESS: Friday 21 November, 2003.

HOME:

MY BOOK: Saturday 22 November, 2003

PHILOSOPHERS IN SPACE: Monday 25 November, 2003.

OCTOBER 2003

ENOUGH: Monday 13 October, 2003.

MY OWN PRESENCE: Thursday 30 October, 2003.

SEPTEMBER 2003

HUMBLED: Monday 8 September, 2003.

PAINFUL CONTESTS: Sunday 21 September, 2003.

AUGUST 2003

FESTIVAL MEDICINE: Saturday 16 August, 2003.

WHAT MAKES YOU CLICK?: Monday 18 August, 2003.

JULY 2003

FAITH: Thursday 3 July, 2003.

BECOMING POSTHUMAN: Friday 11 July, 2003.

LEVELS OF CONFORMITY: Tuesday 15 July, 2003.

WORDS: Wednesday 16 July, 2003.

DISEMBODIED SINGULARITY: Sunday 27 July, 2003.

PEER REVIEW – A PROPOSAL:

JUNE 2003

THE PHILOSOPHER’S MOTHER II: Sunday 1 June, 2003.

SHARING:

OMNIPOTENT: Friday 13 June, 2003.

DIFFERENCE: Friday 27 June, 2003.

MAY 2003

SUPERHEROES IN DESPERATE TIMES: Thursday 1 May, 2003.

SYMPTOMS OF A LIBERAL MIND: Friday 2 May, 2003.

A BIG IDEA: Sunday 11 May, 2003.

THE MEDICALISATION OF CYBERSPACE: Tuesday 20 May, 2003.

INVISIBLE BIOGRAPHIES: Saturday 23 May, 2003.

CITY LIFE: Monday 26 May 2003.

PLAYING DOCTOR:

REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, ARTIFICE AND THE NATURAL:

APRIL 2003

CHOICES: Wednesday 2 April, 2003.

RAW: Friday 4 April, 2003.

100MPH: Saturday 12 April, 2003.

THE PHILOSOPHER’S MOTHER: Thursday 17 April, 2003.

BEING RADICAL: Saturday 19 April, 2003.

IMAGINATIVE BIOETHICS: Sunday 27 April, 2003.

MARCH 2003

FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY: Tuesday 4 March, 2003.

PHILOSOPHY & POPULAR MUSIC:

ON CRITIQUE: Friday 7 March, 2003.

GMA FOR NEW SPORTS:

PHILOSOPHY, MEDICINE & JURISPRUDENCE: Monday 10 March, 2003.

IDENTITY:

GENETICALLY MODIFYING NEW SPORTS:

MY BLOG, OR SEEKING CELEBRITY STATUS IN CYBERSPACE: Monday 17 March, 2003.

CRASH: Tuesday 18 March, 2003.

THE CONCEPTUAL ASSASSINATION OF STELARC: Friday 21 March, 2003.

A COMPLEX THEORY ON AGREEMENT: Saturday 22 March, 2003.

FEBRUARY 2003

ON ART & MEDICINE: Tuesday 11 February, 2003.

GM CONCLUSIONS: Tuesday 18 February, 2003.

REPUTATIONS: Friday 28 February, 2003.

JANUARY 2003

BEYOND CRITIQUE: Sunday 5 January, 2003.

NATIONALITY:

CONSISTENCY: Wednesday 8 January, 2003.

AUTONOMY: Sunday 12 January, 2003.

MEDIOCRITY: Tuesday 14 January, 2003.

PERSONHOOD: Wednesday 15 January, 2003.

UFOS ARE TIME TRAVELLERS: Friday 17 January, 2003.

 

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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