Invited Conference Presentations

Enhancement as the Accumulation of Biocultural Capital,
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.

Justifying Human Enhancement,
Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA), London, UK, December, 2007.

9.74 seconds: Sport’s Posthuman Future
Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs in the 21st Century, Center for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, October, 2007.

Human Enhancement Technologies and Sport: The New Language of Doping?
Doping and Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark, August 2007.

Chair
Royal Institution of Great Britain and EPSRC Futures Series, Sheffield, June, 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,
Australian Government, Brisbane, March, 2007.

Human Enhancement & the Bioethics of Cultural Studies , Loughborough University, December, 2006.

Alternative Media, New Voices, Beijing Olympics, Conference, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Nov 27-28, 2006.

Posthuman Performers, Video Conference for British Council sponsored Café Scientifique, Jordan, Nov 20, 2006.

Posthuman Enhancement Technologies in Sport, Glasgow University, Physiological Society Seminar Series, Oct 4, 2006.

The New Media at the Olympics: Citizen Journalists and Non-Accredited Media
Chinese Olympiad, Global Media, Annenberg School of Communication, UPenn and Communuication University of China, Beijing, July, 2006.

“Steroids Aren’t cool”: Criminalising Enhancement and the Politics of Healthcare Ethics, European College of Sport Science Annual Meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland, July, 2006.

Gene Doping Symposium American College of Sports Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA, May, 2006.

Genetically Modified Athletes?: Bioethics, Science Communication and the Media, British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Birmingham, UK, Mar, 2006.

Response to Thomas H. Murray Invited by World Anti-Doping Agency Gene Doping Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden. December, 2005.

Institute of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Glasgow University, Sept, 2005.

Ban Drugs, Permit Gene Doping Invited Paper for European College of Sport Science, annual meeting, Belgrade, Serbia, July 2005.

The Future of Memory, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, Futures Debates, in partnership with EPSRC, London, UK, June, 2005.

Anti-Doping 100% ME Education Campaign, Drug Free Sport, UK Sport, London, 23 May 2005.

The Olympic Movement, Centre for Cultural Policy Research & London 2012, University of Glasgow, UK, May, 2005.

Genetically Modified Athletes, Café Scientifique, Lancaster, May 18, 2005.

Genetically Modified Athletes: Invited Paper for Harvard Law School & Ethics, Law and Biotechnology Society, Harvard University, Symposium: From BALCO to Bioethics, USA April 11, 2005 Symposium with Dan Brock (Harvard), Olivier Rabin (WADA & Gill Siegal (Harvard).

Virtual Reality, Computer Games, and Sport Invited Paper for International Academy of Sports Science and Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept 23, 2004.

Genetically Modified Athletes Invited Paper for public lecture and debate at the British Science Museum, London, UK, Sept 9, 2004.

On Romance, Entertainment and Technology: When the US President’s Council on Bioethics discussed Genetic Enhancement in Sport, Invited Paper for a Symposium on “Gene Doping” Pre-Olympic Congress of the International Council of Sports Science and Physical Education, Thessaloniki, Greece, August 9, 2004.

Bioética e superação de limites Keynote paper for National Olympic Forum, Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 26 2004.

Ethics of Enhancement Technologies Invited Paper for bioethics colloquium on ‘Improving Human Performance, St. Mary’s College, San Francisco, USA, June, 2004.

Virtual Seduction and Cyber-Sex-Tourism Invited Paper for 7th World Congress of the European Federation of Sexology, Brighton, UK, May, 2004.

Not Another Human Clone! Invited Paper for Nexxus: The West of Scotland Bio Science Network, Glasgow Science Centre, Scotland, April, 2004.

Why Sports Need Genetic Modification Invited Paper for ESRC Seminar Series, Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University, England, Feb, 2004.

A Worthwhile DREAM? Genetic Modification, Pain, and Posthuman Athletes Invited Paper for a workshop on ‘Extreme Bodies: The Body and Technology’ in Sport at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands, Nov, 2003.

Avoid Gene Doping Invited Paper for a symposium on ‘Gene-Doping: Sport, Values & Bioethics’ at the 7th International Olympic Committee World Congress on Sport Science, Athens, Oct, 2003.

Genetically Modified Athletes: Social, Political, and Philosophical Concerns Invited Paper for Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Sept, 2003.

Genetically Modified Athletes Invited Paper for the British Olympic Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh, March 2003.

Enhancement Technologies & Staying Human
Discussion seminar with members of Philosophy Dept and working group for Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, and Nanotechnology: Ethics, Policy & Utopian Visions, at Yale University, New Haven, New York, USA, Sept, 2002.

Humanness, Personhood, and Authenticity: An Ethical Context for Genetic Modification in Sport Presentation for fellows of The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York, USA, August, 2002.

Conference Presentations

New Beijing, Great Journalism? Media Freedom During the Beijing Olympic Games,
Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations, 25th Anniversary of Theory, Culture and Society; Tokyo, Japan, July 13-16, 2007.

The Right to Remain Natural: Criminalising Enhancement in Elite Sport, Human Rights and Enhancement Technologies, Stanford Law School and Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, California, USA, May, 2006.

Re-thinking Enhancement in Sport Tomorrow’s People: The Promise and Challenges of Life-Extension and Enhancement Technologies, James Martin Institute, Oxford University, Mar, 2006.

Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence,
Annual meeting of the International Philosophy of Sport Association, Czech Republic, Sept, 2005.

Posthuman Medicine and Imagined Ethics, For Ethics and Philosophy of Emerging Medical Technologies, Institut Borja de Bioetica, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain, Aug, 2005.

Designer Steroids, Cosmetic Surgery & Wings, Sport, Medicine and Ethics, Gotenburg University and Oxford University, Sweden, May, 2005.

Cyberspace and the Public Understanding of Ethics For the Barcelona Forum 2004, Dialogue: Information, Power and Ethics in the 21st Century, Barcelona, Spain, May 19-21, 2004.

Cultural Computer Games: The Emergence of a Research Field For the 5th Annual Conference of the Media, Cultural Studies and Communication Association, Sussex University, England, Dec 19-21, 2003 [with Dr. Philip Drake].

Intersections Between Art and Medicine: Broadcasting Death, or When Reality-TV Becomes Too Real For ‘The State of the Real’, An Interdisciplinary Conference, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK, November 21-22, 2003.

Bioethics Through the Media For ‘Who Twists the Helix?’ a trans-disciplinary exploration of the powers that could decide our genetic futures, Cambridge University, England, UK, March 16-19, 2003.

A Cultural Philosophy: Tempering the Desire for Spectacle For Journeys of Expression II, International Festival & Events Association, Vienna, Austria, March 2003 [co-authored with Beatriz Garcia, University of Glasgow].

Male, Female, Neither? Questions of Gender, Identity, and Morality in Cyberspace Gender / Culture / Power, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, October 11-13 2002.

A Deep Blue Grasshopper: Playing games with artificial intelligence Conference in Analytic Philosophy, Scottish Post-Graduate Philosophy Association, University of Stirling, UK, January 2002.

Designer Genes For Sale – Is It Just A Matter Of The Price? Paper given at the 5th World Congress Of Bioethics: Ethics, Law & Public Policy, International Association of Bioethics, Imperial College London, Sept 2000.

Are Genes Us? Patenting Human DNA paper given at Are Genes Us?, The Annual Conference of the Society for Applied Philosophy, Manchester, May 2000.

Virtually Nothing: Re-Evaluating the Significance of Cyberspace Paper presented at “Just Leisure”, the Annual Meeting of the Leisure Studies Association, July 1999, Cheltenham & Gloucester, UK.

Conference Attendance

World Conference on Doping in Sport, [observer]
World Anti-Doping Agency, Madrid, November, 2007.

All Party London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Group, Westminster, London, Feb 2007.

Legacy Lives 2007, Organised by PMP and UK Sport, London, Jan 2007.

Olympics and City Development, Fourth International Forum on 2008 Beijing Olympic, Games, Humanistic Olympics Studies Center, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, 09-10 July, 2006.

ENHANCE Project Meeting
Oxford University and Stockholm University, Oxford, 5 May, 2006 [invited].

Mitochondrial Disease Research: Social & Ethical Considerations
Invited participant in Wellcome Trust funded workshop hosted by the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University, 28 October, 2005.

Olympic Education Symposium, London 2012 Bid Committee. Invited participant at London 2012 symposium, 9 March, 2005.

Digital Games Research Association Scotland: Scotland at Play Hosted by Glasgow Caledonian University, 15 December, 2004.

Justice, Healthcare and the Trend Towards Predictive Medicine Invited delegate, The Brocher Foundation (Geneva) Brussels, Belgium, 21-23 November, 2004.

Power-Up Digital Games Research Association Annual Conference, The Netherlands, November, 2003.

Edinburgh International Games Festival Conference for Industry in Computer Game Development, Sept 2003.

Computing & Philosophy, European Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland, March, 2003.

Genetic Engineering & the Intrinsic Value & Integrity of Animals and Plants International Forum for Genetic Engineering, Edinburgh, Scotland, September, 2002.

European Association for Sports Management Annual conference, Vitoria, Gastez, Spain, September, 2001. 8th Meeting of the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of UNESCO as an observer United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Headquarters, Paris, France, Sept, 2001.

Sport & Tourism World Conference, International Olympic Committee / World Tourism Organisation Barcelona, Spain, February, 2001.

Sports and Human Rights, Assault – Doping International Association of Sports Law, Paris, France, December, 2000.

NewSport@NewTechnologies.com Roehampton University of Surrey, British Sociological Association, London, November, 2000.

Annual Meeting of the British Olympic Association Wembley, London, February, 1999.