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  • , 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. .
  • A Call for Papers has now been circulated for the PDF icon16th conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 30 July-1 August 2020 (Thursday-Saturday).
  • and explore Bentham's seminal economic thought. Download a and visit the to register. and 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 ,Ìý, and  are available to download.
  • The Bentham Project is delighted to announce that pre-publication versions of , and , forthcoming volumes of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, edited by Dr Michael Quinn, can now be downloaded from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø's Research Data Repository.
  • Thanks to a collaboration with the at the Universitat Politècnica de València as part of the , 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 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Press: Happiness and Utility: Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen, edited by Georgios Varouxakis and Mark Philp,Ìýin 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'. .
  • FileDownload 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),ÌýProfessor Marco Guidi (Pisa),ÌýDr Michael Quinn (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø), and Professor Richard Whatmore (St Andrews). You can also download an open-access pre-publication version of  The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham,ÌýWritings on Political Economy, vol. III: Preventive Police, edited by Dr Michael Quinn,.
  • Dr Michael Quinn's paper, .
  • , the latest volume of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham,Ìýhas 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.
  • °Õ³ó±ðÌýBentham and Australia: Convicts, Utility, and Empire conference took place on 11-12 April 2019.
  • Thanks to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Press,Ìýthe open-access .
  • The has been updated and migrated to a new server at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø.  You can find the new website at:
  • You can now follow the International Society for Utilitarian Studies on and .
  • Professor Philip Schofield's chapter on Bentham , edited by Markus D. Dubber and Christopher Tomlins.