The 14th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian
Studies, on the theme of 'Utilitarianism and Institutional Design', will take
place at Lille Catholic University on 6-8 July 2016. To attend, visit .
Professor Philip Schofield recently gave the J. H. Burns
Memorial Lecture at the University of St Andrews on 'Jeremy Bentham on Truth
and Utility'.  You can .
The Bentham Project has been awarded a grant of nearly £500,000
from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, .
Professor Philip Schofield's essay, , has been published in volume 41 of the History
of European Ideas.
You can now buy your copy of . The cookbook is based on original Bentham manuscripts,
and includes a foreword from Michelin-starred chef, Fergus Henderson.
Professor Peter Singer (Melbourne)Â , in which Bentham identifies fifty
fallacious arguments utilised by politicians.Ìý(The Book of
Fallacies, edited by Professor Philip Schofield, is  earlier this year).
µþ±ð²Ô³Ù³ó²¹³¾'²õÌý -
part of his attack on the practice of transporting convicts to New South Wales -
is part of the British Library's major new Magna Carta exhibition. Read more
in .
The Japanese-language The Challenges
of Jeremy Bentham, edited by Professor Yasunori Fukagai and Professor
Michihiro Kaino, has been published by Nakanishiya Press.
Dr Michael Quinn's chapter, 'Fuller on Legal Fictions: A
Benthamic Perspective' forms part of the recently published , edited by Maksymilian Del Mar and
William Twining.
The latest volume of the Collected Works of Jeremy
Bentham has been published by Oxford University Press.Ìý, sees Bentham identify
and criticise almost fifty fallacious arguments employed by politicians in
order to thwart measures of reform, and expose the sinister interests that lead
to their employment. The work has a great deal of relevance to modern political
debate.
The Bentham Project has published online George Wheatley's A
Visit (in 1831) to Jeremy Bentham, edited by Dr Kris Grint. Wheatley's
text is the most detailed and intimate account we have of Bentham's home and
domestic and working arrangements. Amusing and enlightening in equal measure,
the Visit can also be downloaded as a PDF or
in  format
from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Discovery.
Professor Philip Schofield's chapter on Jeremy Bentham forms
part of the recently published ,
edited by Denis Galligan, and published by Oxford University Press.
Dr Tim Causer has , to talk about its convict past
for an episode of Coast Australia, hosted by Neil Oliver. The
episode was ,
and should be shown on BBC Two in the coming months.
The Bentham Project has received a Leverhulme Trust Research
Project Grant of almost £300,000 to produce .Ìý
Professor Philip Schofield has written ,
a European Union funded project investigating the application of
Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology to Bentham manuscripts.
°Â²¹³Ù³¦³óÌý, a video featuring Dr Tim
Causer and based on the only first-hand account of perhaps the most famous
escape by transported convicts from Australia. An  is also available. Two versions of the narrative found in Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø's
Bentham Papers have been published
online by the Bentham Project.
Recordings from the 2014 programme of Bentham Seminars can be
listened to on the new Bentham Seminar Podcast.