Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: Concepts in UQ Philosophy and History

  • It is not that I do not Care, But You Do Have the Capacity

    It is not that I do not Care, But You Do Have the Capacity

    Dear VC,         It is not that I do not care for your difficult position in my campaign to employ and contract the best and leading candidates for employment and contracting. In the United States the situation is far worse.         I suspect that I am not the only former…

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  • The Integrity of Learning and the Political Silence

    The Integrity of Learning and the Political Silence

    “This issue of Encounters/recontres/Encuentros on Education reunites historians working in Departments of History and Sociology with historians and sociological historians working in Faculties of Education. History of Education brings with her particularities inherent to the subject matter and, when situated in faculties of education, the contextual power of teacher education programs. Historians of education in…

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  • I need a job, employed or contracted, now

    I need a job, employed or contracted, now

    Dear friends,     This is a major example of Cognition History. I understand cognition history as the spiral historiography.       This is the opportunity to employ or contract me. It seems incoherent not to be employed or contracted when my work is recognised as top in the field. So, what is going on?      …

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  • What is “Stupidity” and Why it is Not a Dismissal in My Philosophic-Sociological History Work

    What is “Stupidity” and Why it is Not a Dismissal in My Philosophic-Sociological History Work

    From ALEX BOLLINGER, “George Santos Boils In Rage After He Was Tricked Into Celebrating Pedophilia,”  APRIL 25 2024, in CityWatch.       “LGBTQ – Disgraced former Congressman George Santos (R-NY) is willing to say anything to make a buck. He even made a video celebrating NAMBLA, the National Man/Boy Love Association, an organization that…

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  • Plurality in and of Thought. Functional Ideals of Silence and Dismissal

    Plurality in and of Thought. Functional Ideals of Silence and Dismissal

    The academia.edu copy is here:   https://www.academia.edu/117813171/Plurality_in_and_of_Thought_Functional_Ideals_of_Silence_and_Dismissal   The Public PDF copy is here:   Plurality in and of Thought. Functional Ideals of Silence and Dismissal   ***** Featured Image: Mind-Reality dreamstime: 45497563.  

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  • Corruption in The College. When will Vice-Chancellors Make a Bold Stand?

    Corruption in The College. When will Vice-Chancellors Make a Bold Stand?

    A scholarly colleague of mine wrote in a response to a recent story about the malpractice in academic publishing:       Perhaps due to big incentive to write to get published, and not to innovate . Academia has increasingly become a bubble pre-occupied with tenure & commercial potential as a consequence of corporately funded…

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  • Australian Higher Education System is Stuck, Why Can NOT the VC See nothing has changed in the last two decades?

    Australian Higher Education System is Stuck, Why Can NOT the VC See nothing has changed in the last two decades?

    Dear University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, and Griffith Vice-Chancellors, From the RMIT VC,  Professor Alec Cameron: “Higher education and vocational education can work together to support the myriad journeys through learning and work, giving people flexible options to meet their life goals as those evolve”, since “’the goal of reform must be growth for…

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  • 2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities

    2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities

    In 2021, I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2021-2023. I had started this strategy in 2018, when I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2018-2020. The gap year of 2020 in book planning was a reset from the ethos of the Covid-19…

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  • SBSF Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct

    SBSF Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct

      Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning (the Planning Minister) PO Box 15009, City East, Queensland 4002   Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct Temporary Local Planning Instrument No.1 of 2023 (Brisbane City Council) – DSDILGP Dear Stephen Miles [Planning Minister], cc. Environmental Minister cc. Health Minister   Please accept…

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  • Historical Enterprises 1) Not Spoken, 2) Not Heard, 3) Not Understood

    Historical Enterprises 1) Not Spoken, 2) Not Heard, 3) Not Understood

    On sending out an article from The New York Times, on how a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana claimed the American Federal administration was trying to silence its critics on social media, a dear friend asked me, “Isn’t free speech part of their constitution?”     “Free speech” is not…

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