• Preparatory Principles, the latest volume in Bentham's Collected Works, has just been published.  It is edited by Douglas G. Long and Philip Schofield.  Written in the mid 1770s, it contains Bentham's early thoughts on the science of legislation. 
• Dr Malcolm Quinn (University of the Arts) has just published a new article on Bentham's ideas about good and bad taste in his writings on sexual liberty.  The article appears in the History of European Ideas journal.
• You can now watch Professor Philip Schofield give a short lecture on Bentham's views on sexual liberty for Faculti.net, an online academic and professional learning platform.
• Dr Tim Causer was recently interviewed for Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything podcast as part of a miniseries on surveillance.  Dr Causer explained some of Bentham's thinking around the Panopticon and the Auto-Icon.  
• Professor Emmanuelle de Champs of Cergy-Pontoise University and the Centre Bentham has been recognised for her work on Bentham.  Professor de Champs has been awarded the 2016 research prize from the Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur (SAES) and the Association Française des Etudes Américaines (AFEA) for her book, Enlightenment and Utility, Bentham in France, Bentham in French (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Read about the Padiglione Conolly, part of the Psychiatric Hospital of San Niccolo in Siena (PDF), which was constructed upon the principles of Bentham's panopticon, in a short article by Dr. Alessandro Spina and Dr. Andrea Friscelli.
• Your chance to run Bentham's unrealised prison is now here: download the free game, Panopticon Pandemonium, now!
• The latest volume of Bentham's Collected Works is now available from Oxford University Press.  Writings on Political Economy, vol. 1 is edited by Dr Michael Quinn. 
• The May 2016 issue of the Royal Historical Society newsletter carries news of Transcribe Bentham's role in the READ project.  The article explains the potential of Handwritten Text Recognition technology and suggests how it could help our volunteers to decipher Bentham's handwriting.   
• On 17 May 2016 Transcribe Bentham's place in the READ project was presented in a paper at the Institute of Historical Research in the Archives and Society seminar series.
• Professor Philip Schofield will travel to the University of Macau, China in April 2016.  Professor Schofield will give two papers at the Centre for Law Studies: 'Bentham on Codification' and 'Utilitarianism from Locke to Sidgwick'.  
• Dr Michael Quinn will give a talk at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind on Saturday 30 April 2016 entitled, 'The more strictly we are watched, the better we behave.  Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon'.  Free admission but tickets required. 
• Transcribe Bentham will be part of a study day at the French Archives Nationales in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine.  Transcription collaborative et édition numérique de manuscrits: enjeux, outils et perspectives will take place on 16 March 2016.   
• The next Bentham Seminars will take place in March 2016.  Chris Riley (UCL) will speak on 'Bentham, Evidence, and History' and Professor Michihiro Kaino (Doshisha University) will speak on 'Bentham in Japan'.  Further details can be found in the seminar programme (PDF). 
• The Bentham Project is now part of a new research project focused on developing handwritten text recognition technology.  The Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) project has received funding from the EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.  More details on the Faculty of Laws webpage.