2019 Archive

Read a report about from the successful and well-attended conference on Bentham's Political Economy, convened by Dr Michael Quinn, which took place at Bentham House on 16 and 17 December 2019. A wide range of papers were delivered by scholars from around the world, before an interested and international audience. The programme can be viewed on the conference Eventbrite page.
A Call for Papers has now been circulated for the Link 16th conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 30 July-1 August 2020 (Thursday-Saturday).
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, Volume IV, and Volume V are available to download.
The Bentham Project is delighted to announce that pre-publication versions of Writings on Political Economy, Volume IV - Circulating Annuities and other writings on National Debt, and Writings on Political Economy, Volume V - Wealth, Money, and Prices, forthcoming volumes 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.
Link 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.