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Speaking

My diary of conference presentations

current | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 1999-2001

i = invited speaker, funded
c = conference presentation
ia = invited attendee, funded
a = attended as delegate

creative ppt

Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association Brighton c
(Dec, 2003)
"Cultural Computer Games" for the annual meeting of MeCCSA [abstract]		   Level Up Utrecht a
(Nov, 2003)
Digital Games Research Association inaugural conference.
     
Glasgow School of Art Glasgow c
(Nov, 2003)
"Intersections Between Art and Medicine" 'The State of the Real', Glasgow School of Art [abstract].		   Maastricht Maastricht i
(Oct, 2003)
"A Worthwhile DREAM?" Symposium on sociology of technology in sport 'Extreme Bodies' [abstract].
     
IOC World Congress of Sport Science Athens i
(Oct, 2003)
"Avoid 'Gene Doping'"
IOC World Congress on Sport Science [abstract]		   Edinburgh Edinburgh a
(Sept, 2003)
Edinburgh International Games Festival, industry conference
     
Red Cross/Crescent in Geneva Geneva i
(Sept, 2003)
"Genetically Modified Athlete" for a Master Degree programme.		   International Association for the Philosophy of Sport Gloucester c
(Sept, 2003)
"Genetically Modified Athletes" Paper for IAPS [abstract].
     
European College of Sport Science Salzburg i
(July, 2003)
"Bioethics and Sport Talent Selection" for ECSS congress [abstract] 		  International Olympic Academy Olympia i
(Jun, 2003)
"Olympic Athletes and Science" for International Olympic Academy Session for Higher Education Institutes [abstract].
     
British Olympic Assciation Edinburgh i
(Mar, 2003)
"Genetically Modified Athletes' for British Olympic Association, National Olympic Academy		   Cambridge c
(Mar, 2003)
"Bioethics Through the Media" for 'Who Twists the Helix [abstract].
     
Vienna Vienna c
(Mar, 2003)
"A Cuiltural Philosophy' for International Festival and Events Association [abstract].		   Glasgow University Glasgow a
(Mar, 2003)
Computing and Philosophy, University of Glasgow
     
 

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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