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Dear all, Please find info below about an event taking place in scotland this month. Please share with colleagues. *London 2012: the first transhuman Games?* http://bit.ly/transhuman2012 The event is presented by the University of the West of Scotland, as part of ‘Knowing Sport: The science behind the medals’, a public engagement initiative of ICSEMIS 2012 (Glasgow) supported by PODIUM and Research Councils UK, Inspired by London 2012′. BRIEF: On 24th January, 2011, at 630pm @UWScreative will be hosting an 'inspired by London 2012' event at the CCA in Glasgow, host city for ICSEMIS 2012. The event is FREE to attend and open to all. It will bring together a scientist, an artist and a philosopher (me) in conversation about the way in which athletes bodies and minds are being transformed by technology. Today, elite sports find themselves in increasingly unchartered waters. More than ever before, athletes are using technology to optimize their biology for performance and many of their methods are not even tested for by the authorities. From genetic tests for sport performance to the use of superhuman prosthetic enhancements, this subject reaches parts that present-day anti-doping rules cannot reach. These technologies have changed elite sports, as we know them, but the next decade promises even more of an overhaul to what we think being good at sport means. As we approach the London 2012 Games, this debate will consider the ethical implications of new technology in sport, asking what distinguishes the cheat from the innovator. We will ask whether the debate about the ethics of athletic performance is all but over, as the winners' podium makes space for the transhuman athlete. Going beyond the familiar debate about doping and anti-doping, this debate will consider how far biology has been pushed by technical systems and what Jacques Ellul called the technological society. It will include Dr Yannis Pitsiladis, who works with the World Anti-Doping Agency on genetic technologies and live artist Francesca Steele, who became a body builder as part of her most recent performance work. Along with Andy Miah, speakers will consider how we ought to regard the future of sport and how it will function in an era of transhuman enhancements. Best wishes, Andy Professor Andy Miah <http://www.andymiah.net>, Ph.D. | [log in to unmask] Chair of Ethics and Emerging Technologies University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus, KA8 OSR, Scotland, UK. [t] +44 757 898 4147 #photography <http://iphotod.wordpress.com>: twitter: @andymiah <http://www.twitter.com/andymiah> Fellow, FACT <http://www.fact.co.uk> (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool Fellow in Visions of Utopia and Dystopia Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies <http://ieet.org> (IEET), USA Global Director, Centre for Policy and Emerging Technologies<http://c-pet.org/>(C-PET), Washington, DC Associate Editor, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology<http://www.bepress.com/selt/> Associate Editor, International Journal of Technoethics<http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=1156> Editorial Board, Health Care Analysis<http://www.springerlink.com/content/103347/> Editorial Board, Genomics, Society and Policy <http://www.gspjournal.com/> Editor, Culture @ the Olympics <http://www.culturalolympics.org.uk> Abandon Normal Devices <http://www.andfestival.org.uk>, Salons Chair ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptible Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************