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JANUARY 2006

EVERYDAY ETHICS – PERVASIVE EXCLUVISM OR THE NEED FOR AND VALUE OF ELITISM: Sunday 1 January, 2006.

ANOMOLY:

CRIME, MAFIA AND DOPING:
Saturday, 21 January 2006.

FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN AND FEAR OF THE PRESUMED KNOWN:

SCIENCE, UTOPIA AND FUTUROLOGY:
Monday, 23 January 2006.

SCIENCE DOES NOT EXIST:

WORLDS APART: DOPING, FOR OR AGAINST? Saturday 30 January, 2006.

FEBRUARY 2006

CULTURAL SPECIFICITY, ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND ENHANCEMENT: Monday, 6 February 2006.

THE PHYSICS OF NATURE: Monday, 7 February, 2006.

VISIBLE NATIONHOOD: Tuesday 15 February, 2006.

ABORT THE BAD BOXER: Saturday 25 February, 2006.

THE PROBLEM OF ARTICULATED DIFFERENCES:
Tuesday 28 February, 2006.

REMAIN INVISIBLE, OR KEEP IT BRIEF:

THE AT-RISK DISQUALIFICATION IN SPORT:

MARCH 2006

MYCONTACTS.COM: Wednesday, 1 March 2006.

LETTER TO A FRIEND: Friday, 10 March, 2006.

A LETTER TO UTOPIA: Sunday, 12 March, 2006.

INVU: Monday 13 March, 2006.

YOU DON’T OWN THE EXPERTISE ON CONTENT: Tuesday, 14 March, 2006.

SCREENS EQUALISE US:

DOES EVIDENCE MATTER?:

WORDS IN PROGRESS: Friday 17 March, 2006.

APRIL 2006

THE ABSENCE OF A RULE:
Thursday 13 April 2006.

STUDIES OF PERFECTION:
Saturday 15 April, 2006.

KEEP WRITING:

PENS:

CHILDREN: Sunday 16 April, 2006.

TECHNOLOGY, BIOETHICS AN SPORT:

THE OFFICE AND PHILOSOPHY: Monday 17 April, 2006.

MORE NOTES ON PERFECTION: Tuesday 18 April, 2006.

PLATO WAS A JOURNALIST:

HYPER-SWIMMING:

PAST TENSE:

SOCIETY: Wednesday 19 April, 2006.

VIRTUE, EQUALITY AND OBLIGATION:

CONCLUDING CYBERMEDICINE:

FUNDAMENTALISM: Sunday 22 April, 2006.

TECHNOLOGY’S DOMINION:

VISIONARIES, ENTERPRENEURS AND EXPERTS:SOCIOLOGY: Tuesday 25 April, 2006.

ADRENALINE:

TECHNOLOGICAL FORMS: Wednesday 26 April, 2006.

MAY 2006

DIGITAL SHIFT: Tuesday 2 May, 2006.

MEMORY AND TRUTH:

WHO’S WHO:

THE HIGH ROAD: Thursday 4 May, 2005.

BIG ISSUES:

ENHANCEMENT AS THE ACCUMULATION OF CULTURAL CAPITAL: Friday 5 May, 2006.

MOBIUS: Monday 15 May, 2006.

WEB 2.0 AND THE DECEIT OF SIMPLICITY: Sunday 28 May, 2006.

JUNE 2006

TWO WHEELS: Thursday 1 June, 2006.

ADULT: Saturday 3 June, 2006.

EU:

WHEN ART NEEDS VIOLENCE: Thursday 8 May, 2006.

HUMAN ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES IN SPORT: Tuesday 21 June, 2006.

LETTING THE BODY BE:

DON’T BLAME THE MEDIA:

MOBILE INFINITE LOOP PROBLEM:

JULY 2006

OLD FRIENDS: Wednesday 5 July, 2006.

HETs: Friday, 7 July, 2006.

NOTE TO SELF: Saturday, 8 July, 2006.

NEW MEDIA AS MICRO-GLOBAL: Saturday 29 July, 2006.

AUGUST 2006

MY WORDS: Tuesday 1 August, 2006.

CREATIVITY: Wednesday 2 August, 2006.

THE AESTHETICS OF TECHNOLOGY:
Friday 4 August, 2006.

BUSINESS CARD: Tuesday 22 August, 2006.

SPACE: Wednesday 23 August, 2006.

TOO MUCH GREY: Wednesday 30 August, 2006.

FRESH AYR: Tuesday 29 August, 2006.

SEPTEMBER 2006

GENETIC LOTTERY: Thursday 7 September, 2006.

OF COURSE:

IT’S MY LIFE:

EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGY: Sunday 10 September, 2006.

THE RECENT FUTURE: Tuesday 12 September, 2006.

UNLOCATED: Monday, 25 September, 2006.

SOME BODY: Thursday 28 September, 2006.

OCTOBER 2006

TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE & SOCIETY: Thursday 12 October, 2006.

THE WORLD AROUND ME: Thursday 19 October, 2006.

LAST NIGHT WE WERE TOGETHER: Tuesday 24 October, 2006.

NOVEMBER 2006

LIVERPOOL: Tuesday 7 November, 2006.

TECHNOLOGY AS PROCESS: Wednesday 8 November, 2006.

SMALL BLACK INSECTS: Saturday 11 November, 2006.

MY TRAVEL MATES:

A SENTIMENTAL ETHICS: Sunday 12 November, 2006.

STILL ON THE SIDELINES:

CELEBRITY AS A PREOCCUPTATION WITH THE PRESENT: Thursday 16 November, 2006.

DISPLACED: Wednesday 29 November, 2006.

NOVEMBER 2006

YOU LUCKED OUT: Saturday 9 December, 2006.

VERTICAL HOUR:

FINAL POPULATION: Monday 25 December, 2006.

LOCATING DESIRE: Tuesday 26 December, 2006.

DESIRING BEAUTY: Friday 29 December, 2006.

 

 

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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