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• Registration is now open for 'Bentham's Political Economy', a conference which will take place at UCL on 16 and 17 December 2019 and explore Bentham's seminal economic thought. Download a PDF of the programme and visit the conference Eventbrite page to register. Volume I and Volume II of Bentham's Writings on Political Economy, a major sub-project in the new authoritative edition of the Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, are available from OUP, while pre-publication versions of Volume III and Volume IV are available to download.
• The Bentham Project is delighted to announce that pre-publication versions of the preliminaries and first five of sixteen draft text files of Writings on Political Economy, Volume IV - Circulating Annuities and other writings on National Debt, a forthcoming volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, edited by Dr Michael Quinn, can now be downloaded from UCL's Research Data repository.
• Thanks to a collaboration with the PRHLT research centre at the Universitat Politècnica de València as part of the READ project, a new and more sophisticated tool for the full text searching of over 90,000 images of Bentham's manuscripts is now available. Thanks to PRHLT's processing of these images using cutting-edge handwritten text recognition and probabilistic word indexing technologies, it is possible to search even pages which have not been transcribed!
• Out now from UCL Press: Happiness and Utility: Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen, edited by Georgios Varouxakis and Mark Philp, in honour of Professor Rosen, the former General Editor of Bentham's Collected Works. The book includes chapters by Dr Michael Quinn, Senior Research Fellow at the Bentham Project, on 'Bentham, Happiness and the Capability Approach', and Professor Philip Schofield, the current General Editor of the Collected Works, on 'Jeremy Bentham and the Spanish Constitution of 1812'. The book can be downloaded for free as a PDF or purchased from the UCL Press website.

• Download the call for papers for the Bentham's Political Economy conference, which will take place at Bentham House on 16-17 December 2019.

  Download the call for papers for the Bentham's Political Economy conference, which will take place at Bentham House on 16-17 December 2019.
  The deadline for submission is 31 August 2019. Confirmed speakers include Professor Annie Cot (Paris I), Professor Stephen Engelmann (Chicago), Professor Marco Guidi (Pisa), Dr Michael Quinn (UCL), and Professor Richard Whatmore (St Andrews). You can also download an open-access pre-publication version of  The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, Writings on Political Economy, vol. III: Preventive Police, edited by Dr Michael Quinn, from UCL Discovery.
• Dr Michael Quinn's paper, 'Bentham on Preventive Police: The Calendar of Delinquency in Evaluation of Policy and the Police Gazette in Manipulation of Opinion, has been published in the International Criminal Justice Review.
• Writings on Political Economy, Volume II, edited by Dr Michael Quinn, the latest volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, has been published by Oxford University Press. The volume contains 'Supply without Burthen' and 'Proposals relative to divers modes of Supply', which Bentham drafted in 1794, during an intense period of activity in which he set out systematically to review possible sources of public revenue.
• The Bentham and Australia: Convicts, Utility, and Empire conference took place on 11-12 April 2019. To see the programme and for more information, please visit the conference registration page.
• Thanks to UCL Press, the open-access Journal of Bentham Studies is now available in a new home on the ScienceOpen platform.
• The Transcribe Bentham Transcription Desk has been updated and migrated to a new server at UCL.  You can find the new website at: http://transcribe-bentham.ucl.ac.uk
• You can now follow the International Society for Utilitarian Studies on Twitter and Facebook.
• Professor Philip Schofield's chapter on Bentham has been published in the Oxford Handbook of Legal History, edited by Markus D. Dubber and Christopher Tomlins.
• Open access pre-publication versions of Bentham's Writings on Australia, edited by Dr Tim Causer and Professor Philip Schofield, are now available to download from UCL Discovery. The authoritative versions of the texts will be published in due course in a forthcoming volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.
• An open-access pre-publication version of a volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, Writings on Political Economy, vol. III: Preventive Police, edited by Dr Michael Quinn, is now available to download from UCL Discovery.
• The Bentham Project website has been highlighted in the latest edition of The Scout Report as a valuable online resource for research and education. 
• The central collection of Bentham's manuscripts, held at UCL Special Collections and The British Library, have now been completely digitised!  Read more about the achievement on UCL news or the Transcribe Bentham blog.
• Volunteers working on the Transcribe Bentham initiative have now transcribed more than 20,000 pages of Bentham's writings. This is a monumental achievement and we owe a huge thanks to our volunteers!
• The programmes for the 'Bentham on Real and Fictitious Entities: New Perspectives' workshop on 7 May 2018, and the 'A New Bentham? Classical Utilitarianism After the Bentham Project's Critical Editions of Bentham's Writings' workshop on 10 May 2018, both to be held at LUISS Carlo Guidi in Rome, are now available.
• Read a new article in the Journal of Legal History, by the Bentham Project's Chris Riley, entitled 'Jeremy Bentham and Equity: The Court of Chancery, Lord Eldon, and the Dispatch Court Plan'.
• Watch the Director of the Bentham Project, Professor Philip Schofield, take part in the 2018 Putney Debates, which addressed the constitutional challenges currently facing the United Kingdom.
• Transcribe Bentham is starting a newsletter!  Sign up now to hear how we are progressing in the mammoth task of transcribing Bentham's papers.  Expect discoveries made by volunteers and Bentham-related news and events. Sign up!
• Dr Tim Causer's book, Memorandoms by James Martin: An Astonishing Escape from Early New South Wales - based on a manuscript in UCL's Bentham Papers - was reviewed in The Weekend Australian of 6-7 January 2018.
• We are delighted to announce that the Bentham Project is hosting a two-day event entitled 'Reviving Bentham's Theory of Evidence | An Anglo-French symposium' on 12-13 April 2018 at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London.  The symposium will discuss Bentham's extensive writings on judicial evidence and procedure.  Our plenary speaker is Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence William Twining.  You can register to attend the symposium at the Eventbrite page. 
• What happened at the Bentham Hackathon? Read a report on the Transcribe Bentham blog which describes the creative digital research tools that participants were able to develop over the course of a weekend.  

See previous news and events in our archive.