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Category: Intellectual History
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Changing the Minds of University Marketers
A Post at UQ Change Makers: Early this morning I had a conversation with an old undergraduate graduate on his need to retire the nostalgia and to think about the past and present with more intelligence (double meaning). It got me thinking about the historical ideas which have been swirling…
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A Eulogy for Jack
2025-07-07 A Eulogy for Jack Dr Jack Ford 4 May 1957 – 29 June 2025 My Dearest Friend… Acknowledgements to Brenda Biggs, Leela Ford, and Drs. Sue Keays, Chris Hanlon, Catherine Manathunga, Peter Overlack, Joanne Scott, Bernadette Turner, and Dr Jack Ford’s primary source data. “You just keep telling…
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Freedom in both The Domestic Home and The Open Road
Three years I was somewhere else on my journey. There are many ways to think about this past. A few thoughts from where I am at, **in** (not simply ‘at’) ‘home’, is that I am just as alone as I was then. The open road never gave me companionship, but neither did I expected it.…
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The Thinking Person, Life, Hope, for Me in 2025: Why Ignoring Professional Historians will be the end of Good Local Governance?
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Extensively Experienced and Qualified Queensland Professional History of the Queensland Mind. Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 6 June 2025 (Queensland Day) It is unique in the country: https://mappingbrisbanehistory.com.au/ But then many would appear to be small minded…
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Re: Why do we understand how others read “Humanism”?
Death and life flourishing is at the centre of our humanity. Which is why we understand how others read “Humanism”. Each person has their own ideas of what is the experience of death and life, but, surprise, surprise (Gomer Pyle), we find others have different ideas. Understanding others is, thus, only possible in common schemas…
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Interbelief and the Level Playing Field
SEA OF FAITH IN AUSTRALIA (SoFiA) – Melbourne. Interbelief and the Level Playing Field Australian Book. LPF. Stupidity of the Market Economy in Higher Education – Dr Neville Buch Attitudes. Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism Some of us are participating in SoFiA’s online events. Dr. Neville Buch will present the topic and lead…
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Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…
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A Historian’s Future in Australia
A Historian’s Future in Australia by Drs Neil Peach, A.I., and Neville Buch Abstract: This essay addresses the potential for a specialist historian, holding a PhD with expertise in the history of cognition, local history, history of religion, and Australia/America relations, to secure employment outside traditional academic pathways. Specifically, it explores opportunities within…
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The History of Learning Humanism: What Most Humanists Miss in Cognition.
This essay has taken four books (in this order): Bakewell, Sarah (2023). Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Thinking, Enquiry and Hope, London: Chatto & Windus. Hayot, Eric (2021). Humanist Reason: A History, An Argument, A Plan, Columbia University Press. Radhakrishnan, R. (2008). History, the Human, and the World Between, Duke University…
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Understanding possible global impacts upon Australian universities
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 14 March 2025 Re: Following on from the previous email about Nicholas B. Dirks’ thinking. Dear Vice-Chancellors, Another informative article from Nicholas B. Dirks. Following the email below, at the bottom of this blog. Remember…