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• Associate Professor Tony Moore (Monash University), visiting academic at the Bentham Project, will give a seminar on 30 April 2019 entitled 'Conviction Politics: a digital history of the convict roots of Australian democracy', in which he will talk about his digital history project examining the lives of political radicals transported to Australia, as well as Jeremy Bentham's contribution to Australian democracy. More details are available via the seminar's Eventbrite page.
• 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.
• There will be three Bentham Seminars for 2019, all of which take place at 5.30pm in Room G20 at Bentham House: 6 March - Dr Angela Marciniak (Gießen University) on Bentham's political political theory; 13 March - Minami Murata (Doshisha Univeristy) on Mill, Bentham, and Grote; 20 March - Cheng Li (University of York) on Bentham and Peel's judicial reform.
• A draft programme for the Bentham and Australia: Convicts, Utility, and Empire conference, which will take place at UCL on 11-12 April 2019, is now available. 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.
• Thanks to a collaboration with the PRHLT research centre at the Universitat Politècnica de València as part of the READ project, it is now possible to search 90,000 images of Bentham's manuscripts - even pages not yet transcribed!  Try it out and record your findings.
• 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.
• Dr Tim Causer has been featured in the Adelaide Advertiser, where he discusses his research on Bentham's ideas on New South Wales. Dr Causer will speak on this subject at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas on 13 July. 
• 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. 
• Bentham and the Arts is a new seminar series that will launch in January 2018.  It will consider Bentham's complex arguments on culture, taste, and utility.  The series is co-convened by: Anthony Julius (UCL); Malcolm Quinn (UAL); Philip Schofield (UCL). 
• 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.  
• For the first time in decades, Bentham's real head is going on display in a new exhibition at UCL.  What does it mean to be human? Curating heads at UCL opens on 2 October 2017.
• Call for papers open for the next ISUS conference! The 2018 conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will take place on 24-26 July at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.  The conference theme is 'Utility, Progress and Technology'.  The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 2 February 2018. 

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