Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
Category: 2023 Sydney-Auckland Tour
-
Series of Articles on Traveling through Life
Series Introduction: The Series of Articles on Traveling through Life (1–6) documents the intellectual and existential road trips of Dr. Neville Buch between 2022 and 2026. This series analyses the thematic triad of landscape, travel, and thought, framing physical transit as a “cathartic-therapeutic-life accounting experience”. The series is grounded in Dr. Buch’s foundational axiom that…
-
The Ordinary Person. Between Social Stability and Symbolic Misery
24 April 2026 Dear Friends, An invitation to think Abstract The concept of “Ordinary People” functions as a primary site of tension within modern sociological and ethical frameworks. Defined as the realm of the common, frequent, and every day, the “ordinary” provides a vital sense of communal stability, secular prosperity, and a grounded human point…
-
JP Deranty
In our MICE essay, we explore the intriguing overlap between JP Deranty’s social philosophy and Neville Buch’s historiographical insights, highlighting their shared roots in critical theory. We discuss how both scholars confront the crisis of “denoetization” and advocate for a return to Aristotelian flourishing, emphasizing the importance of human authorship in shaping our narratives and…
-
Liberating Conservative Thought
Dr Neville Buch MICE Scholar 18 Callendar Street Sunnybank Hills Qld 4109 Rev Dr Mark Earngey Head of Church History and Lecturer in Christian Thought Moore College 1 King Street, Newtown NSW 2042 cc. MICE and Dr Geoff Treloar. This is important because these scholars specialize in Anglo-American, Continental, Sociology and Philosophy, Education, Conservative Thought,…
-
Tackling Australian Historical Ignorance Head-On
Said in a tradition of Australian politicians. I was thinking this morning would Australians talk of “defending the constitution”. Would they know what they were defending? Certainly, defending the Australian constitution is not defending gun rights, nor free speech, nor “inalienable rights”. If we were to defend the Australian constitution, then there…
-
Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 2: The History and Future of Apologetics Courses in Christian colleges: The Historiographical Challenges from Marc Bloch (1886-1944)
The History and Future of Apologetics Courses in Christian colleges: The Historiographical Challenges from Marc Bloch (1886-1944). By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA 2023 PESA Conference INTRODUCTION The paper is an examination on the history and future of apologetics courses in Christian colleges, with an argument that such courses are either collapsing or being redesigned,…
-
Being Alone and Urban Space: 4 Conferences, 2 Weeks, 2 Cities
I am alone, not like this blank page to which I start to write. We are thrown into a world (Heidegger). I woke up slowly this morning. I slept in. Each morning since 17 December 2016, I awake with a sense of disorientation, and in loss and grief. I am alone.…