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Teaching
My teaching endeavours to align itself with my ongoing research.
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Ana Adi
Media, Culture & Politics of Beijing 2008 Olympics
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Director of Studies |
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Bettina Hoermann
Public Engagement with the Ethics of Nanotechnology |
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Director of Studies |
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| John Andrew Carruthers |
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Supervisory Team |
| Elizabeth McLaughlin |
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| John Quinn |
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Cyberculture
(2002-present, year 2, discusses core concepts in cyberculture,
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Themed:
with particular focus on sexuality, computer gaming, and identity, digitla art
texts: Gauntlett / Bell & Kennedy |
Becoming
Posthuman
(2003-present, core honours course, considers philosophical,
social, and political dimensions of 'posthumanism'.
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Themed:
athletes / death / medicine / intelligence / art / politics
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peer-review journals; Nayar, Virtual Worlds; Gray, Cyborg
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Olympic Spectacle
(2003-present, year 3, considers the cultural, media and political aspects of the Olympic Movement
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Themed: Olympic Truce, Bidding, Infrastructure, Historical, Media instiutions,
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;Parry & Girginov, Olympic Games Explained |
| POSTGRADUATE |
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PhD
Ethics of Science & Medicine
(2002-2005, University of Glasgow, |
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Covered a range of ethical issues, including professional ethical
issues (authorship, honesty, media) and applied ethical issues
(consent, species boundaries, experimentation).
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Teaching |
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Media & Society
(undergraduate, year 2, 2003)
Digital Environments
(undergraduate, year 2, 2002-2004)
Social Ethics
(undergraduate, year 2/3, 2002)
Cultural Studies
(undergraduate, year 3, 2002)
Introductory Philosophic Inquiry
(undergraduate, year 1, 1999-2000) |
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Ethics
and Applied Philosophy
(undergraduate, year 3, 2000)
Advanced
Applied Ethics
(undergraduate, year 3, 2000)
Theory
Foundations in Sociology
(undergraduate, year 1, 2000)
Study
Skills
(undergraduate, year 2, 1999)
Qualitative
Research Methods
(undergraduate, year 2, 2000
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Select Guest Lectures
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| 2008: Royal College of Art, MA Design Interactions, (Professor Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby) |
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NanoCultures: On Speculation, Ethics & Paranoia |
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| 2007: Royal College of Art, MA Design Interactions, (Professor Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby) |
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Robot Rights & Artificial General Intelligence |
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| 2007: University College London, Department of Biology [Dr David Gems] |
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Beyond Bioethics: The Culture of Posthumanity |
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| 2007: University College London, Department of Biology [Dr Bruce Lynn] |
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Bioethics & Sport |
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| 2007: Anglia Ruskin University [Dr John O'Leary] |
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Bioethics and Biolaw for Sporting Bodies |
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| 2006: Glasgow School of Art [Dr Damian Sutton] |
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New Media Ethics & Biotechnoogy |
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art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology
Miah, A. (2008, July 31) Inside the mind of a Marathon man, Nature, 454, in press.
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).
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].
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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.
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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.
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
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Brussels, Belgium i (May, 2008)
The ethical and philosophical aspects of enhancement medicine. |
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London, UK i (May, 2008)
New Media and the Olympics, Olympic legacy conference, University of Greenwich. |
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Liverpool, UK i (April, 2008)
The Future of the Mind,
FACT Human Futures. |
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Oxford, UK a (Mar, 2008)
Olympic Legacies, St Anthony's College, Oxford University. |
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London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, Lecture for Design Interactions, Emerging Cultures of Nanotechnology |
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London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, AHRC Seminar on Art & Design in Human Enhancement [brief]. |
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Liverpool, UK a (Feb, 2008)
SK-interfaces conference, FACT. |
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Liverpool, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Human Futures: What is the future of the body? Artists' seminar in advance of the SK-interfaces meet, @ FACT. |
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London, UK i (Jan, 2008)
London Metropolitan University, New Media @ the Olympics. |
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