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DECEMBER 2004

SOPHIE: Saturday 18 December, 2004.

STOMACHS: Saturday 25 December, 2004.

NOVEMBER 2004

BURN THIS: Friday 12 November, 2004.

DO YOU REMEMBER? Tuesday 16 November, 2004.

BIOETHICISTS CANNOT BE PHILOSOPHERS: Monday 22 November, 2004.

DR SUPER MARIO:

POSTHUMAN BIOETHICS: Tuesday 23 November, 2004.

OCTOBER 2004

TOO MANY WORDS: Wednesday 20 October, 2004.

STILL SUPERMAN: Thursday 21 October, 2004.

SIBLINGS: Saturday 30 October, 2004.

SEPTEMBER 2004

SPACE: Friday 17 September, 2004.

GRAND PROGRESSION: Tuesday 21 September, 2004.

AUGUST 2004

ATHENS 2004: Wednesday 11 August, 2004.

MUTANTS: Tuesday 24 August, 2004.

YOU KNOW LIFE IS TOO SERIOUS WHEN…: Thursday 26 August, 2004

JULY 2004

TESTING OUR DEMOCRACY: Sunday 4 July, 2004.

CONTROVERSY CULTURE:

POVERTY TOURISM: Saturday 10 July, 2004.

EXTRAORDINARY MORAL DILEMMAS:

JUNE 2004

MEDIA/ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS:Friday 4 June, 2004.

SIMULATION OR DREAM?: Wednesday 9 June, 2004.

OUR CULTURAL DEMISE: Sunday 13 June, 2004.

DIGITAL CONSTRAINTS:

AMERICA, AMERICA:

TAKE EVERYTHING: Thursday 17 June, 2004.

HISTORIC MOMENTS: Wednesday 23 June, 2004.

A PARALLEL UNIVERSE:

THREE KINDS OF SCHOLAR: Thursday 24 June, 2004.

ETHICS OF APPRECIATION: Saturday 26 June, 2004.

PARTY:

MAY 2004

REALNESS – YAWN: Saturday, 1 May, 2004.

CONTRASTS: Saturday 8 May, 2004.

RECONCILING THE IMMORALITY OF SENSATIONS:

SEX TOURISM: UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS IS IT ACCEPTABLE? Tuesday 11 May, 2004.

REVISITING DEEP BLUE: Wednesday 12 May, 2004.

CYBERSPACE: WHOSE UTOPIA WAS IT? Saturday 15 May, 2004.

DOCTOR, CAN YOU FIX MY BROKEN HEART? Tuesday 18 May, 2004.

THE JOURNALIST AS HERO: Friday 21 May, 2004.

MORAL EXCEPTIONS: Monday 23 May, 2004.

MOMENTS LIKE THESE: Saturday 29 May, 2004.

APRIL 2004

POSTHUMAN WOES: Wednesday 7 April, 2004.

TALKING ABOUT LIFE: Sunday 18 April, 2004.

REMEMBERING TO FORGET:Monday 19 April, 2004.

NOT ENOUGH TECHNOLOGY: Wednesday 21 April, 2004.

LAW: Thursday 22 April, 2004

MARCH 2004

EMPTY SPACE: Monday 1 March, 2004.

GRATITUDE: Monday 15 March, 2004.

CAPTURING TIME: Wednesday 17 March, 2004.

BOREDOM: Sunday 21 March, 2004.

FRIENDSHIP: Monday 22 March, 2004.

BLOCKED:

NEW METAPHORS FOR SCIENCE: Friday 26 March, 2004.

SAUCHIEHALL ST:

BALANCE:

FEBRUARY 2004

CRYONICS AND DIMINSHED AUTONOMY: Thursday 5 February, 2004.

POSTHUMAN PARANOIA: Sunday 8 February, 2004.

SOMETHING NEW: Sunday 29 February, 2004.

JANUARY 2004

LOYALTY AND DIMINSHED AUTONOMY: Tuesday 13 January, 2004.

SCREAMING IN PAIN: Wednesday 14 January, 2004.

ANTIBIOTICS AND GENETICS: Friday 16 January, 2004.

CREATIVITY: SUNDAY 18 January, 2004.

STUDENTS AND WEB RESOURCES: Thursday 22 January, 2004.

POSTHUMAN: Saturday 24 January, 2004.

BEING AUTHENTIC: Sunday 25 January, 2004.

BEING ORIGINAL:

THOUGHT: Tuesday 27 January, 2004.

MISSING TOO MUCH: Wednesday 28 January, 2004.

UNTITLED: Saturday 31 January, 2004.

COMFORT:

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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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