Transcribe Bentham

Huge Announcement: ❤️🎉🚨 The Bentham Project has been awarded a grant of almost £400,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to produce a critical edition of ‘A Picture of the Treasury’ for the authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.

A total of 42,983 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 1,062 in progress, and 5 awaiting review 👏

New material is now available on Transcribe Bentham, namely Boxes 56, 61, 64, and 65 of the Bentham Papers 🎉💃🎈📝 These contain Bentham's writings on judicial procedure, penal law, and part of a late work entitled 'Law Amendment' ⚖️ To view, visit: transcribe-bentham.ucl.ac.uk/td/Benthamomet…

Discover UCL Press Play's inaugural series, The Greatest Good, exploring the lasting influence of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham. The series is available for free and features our UCL English academics, Dr Xine Yao and Professor Gregory Dart. buff.ly/4fL3iSB @UCLpress

A total of 42,879 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 1,095 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

🎙️ New Podcast Episode: UCL Laws’ Prof Philip Schofield speaks to Prof Bob Mills about the legend of St. Wilgefortis, a non-binary figure who challenges the popular belief that the Middle Ages adhered to strict binary gender norms

To view a .pdf version of this CfP, please visit shorturl.at/iIsRZ.

Please send paper or panel proposals of approximately 300 words to Dr Chris Riley, using the email address pictureconference@ucl.ac.uk, before 28 February 2025. (Papers ~20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for questions, and panels ~1 hr 30 minutes in total, for 3 speakers).

Call for Papers 📝👇: —'Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and "A Picture of the Treasury"' Conference. @ Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London on 23–4 July 2025.

Now available to read and download, for free, from the Journal of Bentham Studies (UCL Press) 📝🎉 —Steven Sverdlik, 'Bentham's Project of Applied Ethics, c. 1780: A Penal Code. Part 1: Offences', Journal of Bentham Studies 22 (1), 1–40. doi: doi.org/10.14324/111.2…

A total of 42,856 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 1,094 in progress, and 1 awaiting review 👏

Now Available: 'Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism', edited by Guillaume Tusseau (@GTusseau), and published by Edward Elgar Publishing (@ElgarPublishing) 🖊️📚 👇 e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/resea…

A total of 42,813 manuscript pages have now been completed by Transcribe Bentham volunteers, with a further 1,091 in progress, and 0 awaiting review 👏

The third episode of The Greatest Good, a @UCLPress podcast, in which Dr Xine Yao discusses 'Queer Aesthetics and the Panoptic Gaze' with Professor Philip Schofield, is now available to listen to online🎧 uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-play/