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My diary of conference presentations. This page shows engagements for the current year. Below is a number of links to my presentations archive by year.

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

    London, UK i (Dec, 2007)
Perspectives on Ethical Futures: Boundaries to Human Enhancements, Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA).
     
Olympia, Greece a (Nov, 2007)
Scholars for Olympia.		  

Madrid, UK i (Nov, 2007)
World Conference on Doping in Sport, WADA.
     
London, UK a (Nov, 2007)
European Neuroscience and Society Network Launch, London School of Economics.		  

London, UK i (Nov, 2007)
Bioethics and Biolaw for Sporting Bodies, Anglia Ruskin University.
 
London, UK i (Oct, 2007)
Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, Robot and AGI Ethics.		  

Liverpool, UK i (Oct, 2007)
Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs in the 21st Century, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University.

     
Bath, UK i (Sept, 2007)
British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, annual meeting. Presentation of working group statement of Genotyping in Sport. 		  Stirling, Scotland i (Aug, 2007)
New Media, New Nano: Public Engagement via the Internet, Institute of Nanotechnology.
     
Aarhus, Denmark i (Aug, 2007)
Doping and Public Health, International Network on Humanistic Doping Research, University of Aarhus [abstract].		   Tokyo, Japan c (July, 2007)
Media Freedom at the Beijing 2007 Olympic Games, Ubiquitous Media, Asian Transformations, 25th Anniversaty of Theory, Culture & Society [abstract].
     
Sheffield, UK i (Jun, 2007)
Chair, Royal Institution of Great Britain, 'Futures' Event.		   London, UK i (May, 2007)
Becoming Posthuman? Guest lecture for degree in Biology & Society, University College London [Dr David Gems].
     
Edinburgh, UK i (May, 2007)
NanoBio-RAISE, project meeting		   New York , USA i (May, 2007)
The Hastings Center, project meeting.
     
Grenoble, France i (Apr, 2007)
NanoBio-RAISE, project meeting.		   Glasgow, UK i (Apr, 2007)
Glasgow Cafe Scientifique.
     
Glasgow, UK i (Apr, 2007)
Society for Experimental Biology, presentation on 'Science Communication' [abstract] 		  Stockholm, Sweden i (Mar, 2007)
ENHANCE Project meeting [abstract].
     
Brisbane, AUS i (Mar, 2007)
'Our Sporting Future', Australian Sports Commission [abstract]. 		  Sheffield, UK i (Mar, 2007)
Project meeting for NanoBio-RAISE ethics working group.
     
London, UK i ( Feb, 2007)
UCL, guest lecture on Bioethics & Sport, MSc in Sports Medicine. 		  London, UK a (Jan, 2007)
Inaugural conference of the All Party Olympic and Paralympic Group, Westminster.
     
Edinburgh, UK i (Jan, 2007)
Project meeting for NanoBio-RAISE ethics working group. . 		  Leeds University, UK i (Jan, 2007)
Guest lecture on the ethics of human enhancement in sport.
 

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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