Bentham and Colombia
All are warmly invited to intend the Bentham Project's Summer seminar series entitled 'Bentham and Colombia'.
The seminars will be given by Professor Gonzalo Ramírez from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, who has been awarded a bursary under UCL's International Teaching Excellence Bursary Scheme.
Professor Ramírez will discuss the topic of Bentham and Colombia in two distinct ways. His first seminar will concentrate on Bentham's influence on Colombia during the 19th Century. In his second seminar he will explore how this influence can be taught through new approaches and methods, such as via the use of Internet resources.
Thursday 11th July: The Influence of Bentham on Colombia during the 19th Century.
Preparatory reading material:
- Miriam Williford, Jeremy Bentham on Spanish America: An Account of His Letters and Proposals to the New World (Louisiana State University Press, 1980) [PDF]
- Sister Theodora McKennan, Santander and the Vogue of Benthamism in Colombia and Neuva Granada (DPhil thesis, Loyola University, 1970) [PDF]
Thursday 18th July: Teaching the influence of Bentham on Colombia through new technologies and Internet resources.
Preparatory reading material:
Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship. Conference papers from the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School (2006).
- Specifically: Lawrence B. Solum, "Blogging and the Transformation of Legal Scholarship."
- Gonzalo A. Ramírez Cleves (ed.), Los blogs jurídicos y la web 2.0 para la difusión y la enseñanza del derecho (Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2010) [in Spanish]
- Stefania Gallini and Serge Noiret, "La historia digital en la era del Web 2.0: introducción al Dossier Historia Digital." Revista 43 (2011), pp.16-37 [in Spanish]
- Brian Leiter, "Why Blogs Are Bad for Legal Scholarship." 116 Yale L.J. Pocket, 53 (2006)
- Thomas S. Ulen, "Democracy and the Internet: Cass R. Sunstein, Republic.Com." Journal of Law, Technology and Policy, 2 (2001)
The seminars will take place from 2pm in Seminar Room 5 of the Gideon Schreier Wing of Bentham House. How to find Bentham House.
The seminars are free to attend and open to all. For further information or to RSVP please email the seminar organizer Kris Grint (k.grint@ucl.ac.uk). Alternatively, you can confirm your attendance directly at our Eventbrite page.
Download a high-resolution version of the Bentham and Colombia poster.
