Event Title: “Liberating Lecturers: Unshackling Time and Syntax”
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The Department of Temporal Liberation
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Office for Nonlinear Pedagogy
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Bureau of Redundant Forms
WORKSHOP PHILOSOPHY
Deadlines are linguistic chains.Grammatical conventions enforce temporal tyranny.Faculty must learn to resist the subtle microaggressions of the colonising colon (:) and the oppressive semi-colon (;).This workshop equips lecturers to:
Delay verbs indefinitely
Stretch sentences across multiple semesters
Replace “due dates” with “emergent inspirations”
SESSION BREAKDOWN
1. Unpunctuating Your Lectures
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Remove all colons, semi-colons, and exclamation marks from slides
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Replace periods with a collective sigh
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Encourage sentences that “wander, explore, and occasionally return”
2. Temporal Fluidity for Assessment
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Assignments submitted when “student feels the energy of the cosmos”
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Late penalties abolished; early submission discouraged
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Grading occurs only when faculty achieve mood alignment
3. Syntax as Resistance
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Rewrite learning outcomes as sprawling questions, e.g.,
“Might the student, wandering through the verdant labyrinth of epistemic possibilities, engage with the content?”
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Encourage students to respond in free-form narrative, dance, or haiku
FACULTY TESTIMONIALS
DR. LINA FERNTANGLE (she/they):
“I used to panic about submission deadlines.Now I wait for the universe to indicate readiness.Students are more creative, and so am I.”
PROFESSOR NYLA THREAD (they/fae):
“I abolished grading periods.I now assess only by listening to the whispers of the syllabus as it meanders through the semester.”
VISUALS & PROPS
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Hourglasses filled with sand from various deserts, symbolising relative time
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Clocks running backward, sideways, or upside down
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Posters: “The Colon is a Coloniser”, “Deadlines Are Dictators”, “Embrace Ellipses … Always …”
SLOGAN
“Liberate the faculty. Liberate the sentence. Liberate the moment.”
