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DECEMBER 2005

TM: Tuesday 6 December, 2005.

TESTING ENHANCEMENT:

UNFRAGMENTED AUDIENCES: Saturday 10 December, 2005.

I COULD HAVE BEEN: Wednesday, 14 December, 2005.

MYGIFT.COM:

TRAVELLING: Saturday 17 December, 2005.

HOW GOOD SHOULD ONE BE, OR CAN WRONGDOINGS BE GOOD ACTIONS?

SLIDING SCALES: Sunday 18 December, 2005.

SUFFERING:

INEVITABILITY: Monday 19 December, 2005.

ALTERNATIVES TO TECHNOLOGY: Friday 23 December, 2005.

ONE PENNY ON EVERYTHING: Monday 26 December, 2005..

NOVEMBER 2005

FINDING THE DIGITAL: Tuesday 1 November, 2005.

MY DIGITAL SCULPTURE: Monday 7 November, 2005.

LANCE JUNIOR: Tuesday 22 November, 2005.

PHILOSOPHY DEGREE BY LISTERV: Wednesday 30 November, 2005.

HOW AUTONOMY LOST ITS FREEDOM: SELFISHNESS, COMMUNITY AND RIGHTS:.

OCTOBER 2005

NEW SPACE: Sunday 9 October, 2005.

IF I CAN SELECT FOR SEX, WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?: Tuesday 18 October, 2005.

NORMALITY – INDIVIDUAL OR POPULATION? Monday 24 October, 2005.

EVERYDAY ETHICS: Tuesday 25 October, 2005.

GE AND THE LAW:

CHANGE: Thursday 27 October, 2005.

VISIONS OVER TIME:

ROUTINE:

ATOMS, INFORMATION AND GENES: Friday 28 October, 2005.

SEPTEMBER 2005

AN INVITATION: Thursday 1 September, 2005.

FLIGHT:

MODERN GENETICS AND NAZI EUGENICS – A CRITICAL REFLECTION ON THIS COMPARISON:

PLAYFUL INTELLIGENCE:

WHAT ATHLETES WOULD DO:

SURPRISE: Thursday 15 September, 2005.

DOES REQUESTING ENHANCEMENT DISRESPECT THE PHYSICIAN?: Sunday 18 September, 2005.

THE MEDIA GAME: Monday 19 September, 2005.

AUGUST 2005

I’M SORRY, YOU WILL NEVER BE A GIRAFFE:
Monday 1 August, 2005.

LOOKING AT THE WORLD: Sunday 14 August, 2005.

ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER:

ABUSE: Wednesday 17 August, 2005.

REVISITING DEMOCRACY: Monday 22 August, 2005.

I AM AN AUTHORITY:

DEMOCRATIC BY DESIGN:

THE VIRTUAL:

MALE:

WHO WILL CHOOSE MY PARENTS?: 25 Aug, 2005.

IS LOVE INSTRUMENTAL?: Friday 26 August, 2005.

HATE: Saturday 27 August, 2005.

IF THERE WERE NO RULES…: Tuesday 30 August, 2005.

OPEN SYSTEMS, OR THE PROBLEM WITH INTERFERING WITH NATURE: Wednesday 31 August, 2005.

JULY 2005

SUPERSEDING OUR PAST: Tuesday 5 July, 2005.

VOICE: Sunday 17 July, 2005.

IMAGINATION: Tuesday 26 July, 2005.

TRANSCENDENCE: Thursday 28 July, 2005.

JUNE 2005

STAND UP, SPEAK OUT: Wednesday 1 June, 2005.

I DIDN’T MAKE MY CHOICE: Saturday 3 June, 2005.

THE THING ABOUT S&M: Tuesday 7 June, 2005.

DAISIES SHOULD NOT BE BLUE: Friday 10 June, 2005.

TRADING SPACES:

GRATUITOUS LOGIC OF NARRATIVE:
Tuesday 14 June, 2005.

WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN: Thursday 16 June, 2005.

QUALITY OF LIFE-EXTENSION: Thursday 23 June, 2005.

NASTY NICK: Tuesday 28 June, 2005.

COMPULSORY: Wednesday 29 June, 2005.

MAY 2005

WHAT IS POSSIBLE II?: Friday 6 May, 2005.

UNCOMFORTABLE STABILITY: Saturday 7 May, 2005.

ON LUCK AND BULLSHIT:

NEARLY EVERYTHING:

TYPING SPEECHES AS PRESENTATIONS:
Friday 13 May, 2005.

CELEBLOGGER: Sunday 15 May, 2005.

KYLIE: Tuesday 17 May, 2005.

THE ART OF LINE DRAWING: Thursday 19 May, 2005.

THE FUTURE HAS CAUGHT UP WITH THE PRESENT:

WHAT IF WE ARE NOT INTENTIONAL?:
Thursday 26 May, 2005.

APRIL 2005

THE VOICE OF THE DINNER LADY: Friday 1 April, 2005.

HITLER AND THE POPE: Saturday 2 April, 2005.

UP TO ZERO: Friday 8 April, 2005.

FAITH, OR AN ARGUMENT FOR SIMPLICITY:

I CAN’T GIVE YOU ANYTHING: Saturday 9 April, 2005.

A BETTER LIFE:

TROUBLE BEING HUMAN:

THE FUTURE OF MEMORY:

ES MI CULPA:

ONE PER VILLAGE: Sunday 10 April, 2005.

B:

AN EXTRA TWENTY YEARS:

ANOTHER BACK DOOR: Tuesday 12 April, 2005.

A RIGHT TO INFORMATION: Wednesday 13 April, 2005.

NATURAL TO WHAT?: Friday 15 April, 2005.

I RELY ON YOUR IMAGINATION: Thursday 14 April, 2005.

I KNOW I AM NOT YET DONE: Sunday 17 April, 2005.

LIVESTRONG: Tuesday 19 April, 2005.

‘DO KEEP TEXTING IN YOUR BODY PARTS’: Thursday 21 April, 2005.

WHAT IS POSSIBLE?: Tuesday 26 April, 2005.

 

MARCH 2005

INSPIRATION: Saturday 5 March, 2005.

KNOWLEDGE HIERARCHY: Monday 13 March, 2005.

TEMPORALITY: Friday 18 March, 2005.

ATOMISING THE TECHNOSOCIAL: Tuesday 22 March, 2005.

T:

WRITING:

IMMORTALITY AND CELEBRITY:

A COLLECTION OF WORDS:

TECHNOLOGY:

DUD:

CHANCE AND FATE:

WRONG PLACE: Wednesday 23 March, 2005.

THESE WORDS ARE YOURS: Thursday 24 March, 2005.

TO PEE, OR NOT TO PEE: Thursday 31 March, 2005..

FEBRUARY 2005

THE PROBLEM WITH PROGRESS: Saturday 5 February, 2005.

CYBORG, TRANSHUMAN, POSTHUMAN:

THE LUXURY OF ENHANCEMENT:

ENHANCEMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: Sunday 6 February, 2005.

ANONYMITY CRISIS: Friday 25 February, 2005.

SATURDAY: Saturday 26 February, 2005.

WHEN LIVES INTERSECT: Sunday 27 February, 2005.

JANUARY 2005

WHAT IS CRIME?: Saturday 1 January, 2005.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:

INDIFFERENCE: Sunday 2 January, 2005.

DISTANT MEMORIES: Monday 3 January, 2005.

POSTHUMAN ATHLETES: Tuesday 25 January, 2005.

 

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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