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2014 Archive

  • ISUS XIII: Members of the Bentham Project attended the 13th conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies at Yokohama National University in Japan.聽The is still available to download. Presentations were also given at the Universities of Tokyo,聽Chuo and聽Hitotsubashi.
  • Kyoto Seminar on Bentham's Legal Thought: a seminar featuring Professor David Lieberman (U.C. Berkeley), Professor Xiaobo Zhai (Zhengzhou/果冻影院) and Professor Michael Lobban (LSE) took place on 18 August at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. More information.
  • Jeremy Bentham and the Escaped Convicts, an exhibition at 果冻影院, was installed聽 in the South Cloisters near the Auto-Icon. Dr Tim Causer wrote about the exhibition at the .
  • Dr Tim Causer delivered a talk entitled 'Jeremy Bentham and the Ones that Got Away' at the 果冻影院 Festival of the Arts on Thursday 29 May at 1pm in the Wilkins Haldane Room. .
  • New work on Bentham's legal philosophy:聽The Legal Philosophy and Influence of Jeremy Bentham: Essays on Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence,聽edited by Guillaume Tusseau, was . The volume contains an essay by Professor Philip Schofield of the Bentham Project.
  • Two competitions featuring Bentham manuscripts聽were announced聽for the forthcoming International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR-2014): the聽 (HTRtS) competition and the competition (H-KWS). .
  • The first meeting of聽La d茅ontologie publique : trajectoire et pr茅sence d'une notion ambigu毛, a symposium organised by the聽聽(脡cole de Droit de Sciences Po) was held on 14 May 2014 in Paris.聽听辞谤听download the invitation and agenda.
  • A new post examining Bentham's arguments for Jesus' homosexuality as part of his theological defense for same-sex love in Not Paul, but Jesus Vol. III was published at the聽听产濒辞驳.
  • The British Library joined the聽聽initiative, making its collection of Bentham papers available online for the first time. Dr Kris Grint wrote about the BL's collection, which includes thousands of Bentham family letters, for the聽.
  • Of Sexual Irregularities, and Other Writings on Sexual Morality, the latest volume in the聽Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, has been聽.聽A preliminary version of a closely-related work,聽Not Paul, but Jesus Vol. III,听颈蝉听available to download聽as a free open-access text. Professor Philip Schofield wrote about the new volume for the聽.聽Dr Michael Quinn wrote on the modern-day relevance of Bentham's writings on sexual morality to Uganda's recent homophobic bill in a piece for聽.
  • A new book by Dr Jeremy Davies,聽,聽examines why Bentham wrote in defence of torture.
  • Emeritus Professor Philip Steadman of 果冻影院's Bartlett School of Architecture, has published a book examining the histories of a number of common building types, including houses, hospitals, factories, and prisons. The book contains information on Bentham's panopticon prison scheme.聽Download the flyer.
  • New Italian work on Bentham: Paola Rudan's latest book,聽 has been published by Il Mulino.

  • 2014 Bentham Seminars聽All seminars were recorded for the Bentham Seminar Podcast.

    • 22 January 2014: Professor David Lieberman (University of California, Berkeley), Bentham and the Conventions of English Radicalism
    • 12 March 2014: Professor G.J. Postema聽(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Bentham's 'Revisionist' Positivism
    • 19 March 2014: Dr Kris Grint聽(Bentham Project, 果冻影院), 'A monopoly of spiritual domination': Bentham, secularism and James Mill's political thought
    • 26 March 2014: Professor Xiaobo Zhai聽(Bentham Project, 果冻影院/Zhengzhou University), Bentham's Exposition of Common Law
    • 2 July 2014: Professor Doug Long (Western University),聽"Universal Jurisprudence" and "Critical Jurisprudence" in Bentham's Preparatory Principles Inserenda