• The Greatest Good

  • Auteur(s): UCL Minds
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The Greatest Good

Auteur(s): UCL Minds
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  • UCL Press Play’s inaugural series, The Greatest Good, explores the lasting influence of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, whose radical progressivism was the intellectual inspiration for UCL. As the first entirely secular university to admit students regardless of religion, UCL was inspired by Bentham’s principles of equality and intellectual freedom. Hosted by Professor Philip Schofield, Director of UCL’s Bentham Project, The Greatest Good features a series of five conversations with UCL’s world-leading academics. Website and transcripts: https://uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-play/
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  • Episode 3 - Dr Xine Yao on Queer Aesthetics and the Panoptic Gaze

    Episode 3 - Dr Xine Yao on Queer Aesthetics and the Panoptic Gaze
    Oct 28 2024

    Professor Philip Schofield discusses queer aesthetics and the idea of a racialised panoptic gaze with Dr Xine Yao, the co-director of qUCL and an expert on American literature in the Department of English. They dig into the archive of bestselling, but now forgotten, American novels, and tease out the ways in which the biggest issues of the 19th century still resonate in everyday life today.

    Host: Professor Philip Schofield (Director of the Bentham Project, UCL)

    Guest: Dr Xine Yao (Department of English, UCL)

    Commissioners: Professor David Docherty OBE & Dr Paul Ayris (Pro-Vice-Provost LCCOS: Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science, UCL)

    Director: Justin Hardy (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media, UCL)

    Producer: Stevie Doran

    Date: 28 October 2024

    Duration: 32:27
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    32 min
  • Episode 2 - Dr Jonathan Galton on Queerness, Islam and the Left

    Episode 2 - Dr Jonathan Galton on Queerness, Islam and the Left
    Oct 21 2024

    Professor Philip Schofield hosts Social Scientist Dr Jonathan Galton, to explore his research into the perceived political tension on the progressive left between queerness and Islam. Discussing the historical and cultural context surrounding queerness and Islam, they find surprising affinities between Bentham’s writing on freedom of religion and sexual liberty, and the contemporary theological work reinterpreting Quranic verses on homosexuality today.

    Dr Jonathan Galton is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Sciences at the Thomas Coram Research Unit in the UCL Social Research Institute. The research discussed in this episode was funded through a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.


    Host: Professor Philip Schofield (Director of the Bentham Project, UCL)

    Guest: Dr Jonathan Galton (IOE - Social Research Institute, UCL)

    Commissioners: Professor David Docherty OBE & Dr Paul Ayris (Pro-Vice-Provost LCCOS: Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science, UCL)

    Director: Justin Hardy (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media, UCL)

    Producer: Stevie Doran

    Date: 21 October 2024

    Duration: 26:35
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    27 min
  • Episode 1 - Professor Gregory Dart on Bentham, Romanticism and the ‘Cockney College’

    Episode 1 - Professor Gregory Dart on Bentham, Romanticism and the ‘Cockney College’
    Oct 14 2024

    Professor Philip Schofield and Professor Gregory Dart discuss the philosophical differences between Utilitarianism and Romanticism, in the context of the founding of the “Cockney College”, as UCL was known at the time. They explore how Bentham’s utilitarian principles, emphasising happiness and the greatest good, contrasted with Romantic notions of moral intentions and conscience.

    Transcript: https://uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-play/

    Host: Professor Philip Schofield (Director of the Bentham Project, UCL)

    Guest: Professor Gregory Dart (Department of English, UCL)

    Commissioners: Professor David Docherty OBE & Dr Paul Ayris (Pro-Vice-Provost LCCOS: Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science, UCL)

    Director: Justin Hardy (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media, UCL)

    Producer: Stevie Doran

    Date: 14 October 2024

    Duration: 26:32
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    27 min

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