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JANUARY 2007

NEW YEAR: Wednesday 3 January, 2007.

DESIRE AND DISORDER: Monday 15 January, 2007.

NEW MEDIA & BIOETHICS: Tuesday 16 January, 2007.

PROMETHEUS PROSTHESIS UNBOUND: Sunday 28 January, 2007.

THE STORY OF SOCRATES:

MATTER OUT OF PLACE: Tuesday 30 January, 2007.

FEBRUARY 2007

FILM THEORY: Wednesday 7 February, 2007.

SNOW: Thursday 8 February, 2007.

ANIMAL ENHANCEMENT: Saturday 17 February, 2007.

A TOUCHING EXPERIENCE: Tuesday 20 February, 2007.

SEARCHING: Thursday 22 February, 2007..

MARCH 2007

MY ETHICAL CULTURE: Monday 5 March, 2007.

IS SCIENCE FICTION UNETHICAL? Wednesday 7 March, 2007.

THE IMMORTALITY OF IMAGINATION:

COMPOSITION: Saturday 10 March, 2007.

SLIGHTLY CRAZY: Friday 23 March, 2007.

APRIL 2007

BRAIN SURGERY: Tuesday, 5 April, 2007.

MY PROBLEM: Sunday, 15 April, 2007.

OPTIMAL STATES:

MAY 2007

TURNS: Tuesday, 8 May, 2007.

WEB 3.0: Wednesday 16 May, 2007.

JUNE 2007

MY CITY IN FILM: Thursday 7 June, 2007.

ART WITHOUT ARTISTS:

GLASGOW, SOLO:

BE CREATIVE: Thursday 14 June, 2007.

AUGUST 2007

PARACHUTES: Tuesday 14 August, 2007.

ŽIŽEK ON ŽIŽEK: Tuesday 28 August, 2007.

SEPTEMBER 2007

PASSING THROUGH: Friday 7 September, 2007.

DEFINITELY NOT EUGENICS:

ICH BIN EINE ESPANOLA: Monday 17 September, 2007.

OCTOBER 2007

THE BANAL NON-FUNCTIONAL: Monday 8 October, 2007.

THE IMAGE INDUSTRY: Wednesday, October 17, 2007.

REFERENCE POINTS:

DECEMBER 2007

ODE TO THE HAGGIS: Monday 3 December, 2007.

MUST NOT DELETE: Thursday 6 December, 2007.

HUMAN ENHANCEMENT I - WELFARE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: Monday 21 December, 2007.

HUMAN ENHANCEMENT II - AND ECONOMICS:

SCI-FI REALISM:

HUMAN ENHANCEMENT III: Friday 28 December, 2007.

HUMAN ENHANCEMENT IV – DESIGN, OPTIMIZATION AND PERFECTIBILITY:.

 

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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