This page gives a selection of the speaking invitations I have received. It offers a sense of the subject areas I am qualified to talk about. For a full list of speaking engagements, see my cv in the ‘about’ section of this website.

2010

• The Undead: Life Sciences and Pulp Fiction, Hamburg, Germany, 12-14 May 2010.
• Ethical Design in a Posthuman World, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs), Berlin (22 November, 2010).
• The Virtual Society in a Big Society: Ethics, Education and Digital Technology, Institute of Education ESRC Seminar Series on the future of education, November 19, 2010.
• Media Blueprint for the London 2012 Games, Oxford Brookes University (9 November, 2010.
• Salon Chair, Abandon Normal Devices festival, (1-7 October, 2010).
• Discredited Media Network, feature event in Abandon Normal Devices Festival (Lead and Organizing Team) (4 Oct, 2010).
• Igniting Citizen Media around the London 2012 Olympic Games, Ignite Liverpool (Aug 5 2010)
• Untold Stories of the Olympic Games, Sport in Society: the Summer Olympics through the Lens of the Social Sciences, launch of the British Library Olympic Archive, London (April 20, 2010).
• Nanoscaled, Abandon Normal Devices festival, Cumbria, Chair (10 April, 2010)
• Diganosed, Abandon Normal Devices, Cumbria, Speaker and Chair (April 2, 2010)
• Ethical Design in Pervasive Media, Pervasive or Invasive, Digital Culture Research Centre, University of the West of England, March 5, 2010.
• The Twitter Olympics, Fresh Media Olympics, Keynote, Vancouver (22 Feb, 2010).
• The Future of European Bioethics, Globalizing European Bioethics, Manchester (8 February, 2010).
• What will we remember about the future?, Edinburgh College of Art, (25 January, 2010)
• The Olympic Rings, This Happened, Edinburgh (25 January, 2010).

2009

• Digital Culture, Birmingham School of Architecture (11 Dec, 2009)
• Mashing-Up Computing & Biology: From Digital Bodies to Enhanced Humans, AMPLIFIED Leicester, a NESTA event (10 Dec, 2009).
• Imperfect Moments, (Disability Arts and Deaf Arts) Liverpool (28 Nov, 2009).
• Eugenics, Edinburgh Biomedical Ethics Film Festival, Scottish Council of Human Bioethics (22 Nov 2009)
• Replies to Paul Root Wolpe & John Harris, Human Enhancement Technologies Conference, University of Oxford and University of Geneva, Geneva (26 Oct 2009).
• Ecohuman: Human Enhancement for an Ecological Future, Royal College of Art (5 Oct, 2009).
• Ethics of Nanotechnology for Lifestyle, Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Ministry of Science, Seoul, South Korea (19-23 Aug, 2009).
• Social Justice and the Olympics, Supervising Professor at the International Olympic Academy, 17th International Seminar on Olympic Studies for Postgraduate Students (19-30 July 2009).
• Anti-Social Media, for Social Media: Uses and Abuses of the Web as a Social Space, University of Leicester (26 Jun, 2009).
• BioArt as Bioethics, UK National Postgraduate Bioethics Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast (23 June, 2009)
• Man Made: The Future of Humanity, DANA Centre, Science Museum, (10 Jun, 2009).
• Nanotechnology & the Posthuman Condition, Art and Science symposium, University of Sheffield (9 June, 2009).
• “If my mother’s mtDNA is likely to harm me, can she choose the best replacement?”, Workshop on the Ethics of Mitochondrial DNA, University of Lancaster, Wales (4 Apr, 2009).
• New Media, New Olympics, ACTIVE Institute, University of Aarhus Aalborg, Denmark (2 April, 2009) [keynote].
• Social Media & Art/Health, Innovative Media for a Digital Economy final conference, London (Mar 26, 2009).
• Evidence Briefing on Human Enhancement, for MEPs of European Parliament, Organized by the Rathenau Institute, Brussels, Belgium (Feb 24, 2009) [keynote].
• Panel Debate on Olympics and Social Media, Northern Voice, Canada’s Premiere Social Media Conference, Vancouver, (2009, Feb) [panel].
• Debate Chair, The role of arts in an era of biotechnology, Hybrid, Birmingham (Jan, 2009)

2008

• Panel Debate, Human Enhancement, Words on Monday, Hosted by Nature, Kings Place Music Foundation, London, UK (November, 2008).
• Human Futures, BioCentre 2008 series: “People Power for the Third Millennium: Technology, Democracy and Human Rights, Symposium on “Arts and Technology: the role of the arts in democratic policy making” London, UK (Oct, 2008)
• Extraterrestrial Ethics: Our Cultural & Moral Commitment to Discover, Create, and Support Emergent Life Forms, for LESS REMOTE: The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium, International Astronautic Congress, SEC, Glasgow, Scotland (Sept, 2008).
• Social Justice and the Olympics, Supervising Professor International Olympic Academy, 16th International Seminar on Olympic Studies for Postgraduate Students (13-20 July 2008).
• Posthuman Designs, St James Martin Institute for the 21st Century, Programme on Biomedical Ethics and Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford, UK (May, 2008)
• Human Enhancement in Performative Cultures, The Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Enhancement Medicine, Free University of Brussels & Société pour la Philosophie de la Technique and the Centre for Inter-disciplinary Research in Bioethics (CRIB) Brussels, May 9-10, 2008.
• New Media and the Olympics, Olympic legacy conference, University of Greenwich, London, UK (May, 2008)
• A Case for Human Enhancement, Royal College of Art and AHRC Symposium on Human Enhancements, London, February, 2008.
• New Media @ the Beijing 2008 Olympics
  London Metropolitan University, London, UK, January 2008.

2007

• Justifying Human Enhancement, Perspectives on Ethical Futures: Boundaries to Human Enhancements, Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA), London, UK, December, 2007.
• Bioethics & Human Enhancement, Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs in the 21st Century, Center for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Oct 2007.
• Popular Science: The Rules of Engagement, Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology, Glasgow, UK, April, 2007.
• New Media Futures: The Challenge from Posthumanity, ‘Our Sporting Future’, the annual conference of the Australian Sports Commission, Brisbane, March, 2007.

2006

• Human Enhancement & the Bioethics of Cultural Studies, Loughborough University, December, 2006.
• Alternative Media, New Voices, Image, Identity, Technology: Towards the Beijing Olympics of 2008, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Nov 27-28, 2006.
• The Ethics of Xenotransplantation, Edinburgh Bioethics Film Festival, Nov, 2006.
• The New Media at the Olympics: Citizen Journalists and Non-Accredited Media, Global Olympiad, Chinese Media, Symposium organized by the Communication University of China & the Annenberg School of Communication, Project for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Beijing, July, 2006.