My lecturer is my teacher

Abstract

This presentation sources inspiration from the extremely shifting topoi of learning in the so-called universities of the 21st century, where knowledge production and consumption are fraught with slippages. It problematizes the categorization of the men responsible for imparting knowledge into ‘lecturer’ and ‘teacher’, even as it raises questions on the whole idea of the academy. The politics behind the discourse is to cast a fresh look at the essentials of teaching in contradistinction to the essentials of lecturing, and through that prevent the whole notion of lectureship in the university from — in the manner of the postmodern — being conclusive or teleological.