If you could design your ideal final lecture, what wisdom would you like to impart? Queen's inaugural Last Lecture Series invites a distinguished Queen’s faculty member to explore this opportunity during Teaching and Learning month.

In this “last lecture”, Eleanor MacDonald draws on insights from a range of political theoretical frameworks in order to reflect on the lecture as a site of learning/teaching. Rejecting the characterisation of the lecturer as a “sage on the stage”, MacDonald offers alternative metaphors to represent the work that we do when we lecture, and to inspire us to rethink how we understand the educational encounter that is possible in a lecture-based course.