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ISUS Conference 2024
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics

The 17th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will take place on 18–20 June 2024 at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. The Conference is generously supported by the Faculty's Bentham House Conference Fund.

Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900) is recognized as the third in the trinity of major classical utilitarian thinkers, following Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806–73). We will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics, a work described by John Rawls as 'the most philosophically profound of the strictly classical works' in the utilitarian tradition.

Registration for the 17th International Society for Utilitarian Studies conference, which will take place at Bentham House, UCL Faculty of Laws, on 18–20 June 2024 is now open. Please visit the Eventbrite page to register your attendance. Details on how to register for the conference dinner will be forthcoming. For any technical queries about the Eventbrite platform please contact Emma Blackman (UCL Laws Faculty Research Events Manager).

To download the draft conference programme, please visit the following link: 

For all other queries about the Conference, please contact isus2024@gmail.com.

Previous ISUS Conferences

  • 5–7 July 2023—LUISS Guido Carli, Italy.

  • 24–6 July 2018—Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

  • 6–8 July 2016—Lille Catholic University, France.

  • 20–2 August 2014—Yokohama National University, Japan.

  • 8–11 August 2012—Stern School of Business, New York University, USA.

  • 23–5 June 2011—Università di Pisa, Italy.

  • 11–14 September 2008—University of California, Berkeley, USA.

  • 5–7 April 2006—University College London, UK (John Stuart Mill Bicentennial Conference).

  • 2005—Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.

  • 2004—Wake Forest, USA.

  • 2003—Lisbon, Portugal (Utilitarianism, Human Rights and Globalization).

  • 2002—Tokyo, Japan (Colloquium on the Economic Thought of Jeremy Bentham).

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