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DESCRIPTION: In the US\, universities and disciplines have been increasingl
 y challenged to demonstrate their value. In some contexts\, value is couch
 ed in market terms\, such as return-on-investment (ROI). Faculty have gene
 rally recoiled against the intrusion of business-oriented ideologies into 
 universities. But the resistance often focuses on maintaining the status q
 uo rather than evaluating and addressing the nature of these conversations
  about academia’s value. One response has been to develop “applied” 
 avenues to tie one’s disciplinary relevance to others' rather than to de
 velop our own strategies to provide more accurate representations of our d
 iscipline’s value. However\, focusing on only academic relevance has bec
 ome less effective. External forces have changed the employment landscape\
 , the nature of research funding\, and the structure of higher education i
 nstitutions. Unfortunately\, disciplines that appear to have limited relev
 ance are at greater risk of being under- or de-funded. In this talk\, I di
 scuss how we can think about relevance more broadly across context\, scale
 \, and stakeholders in archaeology and academia in general.\nSpeaker: Lisa
  Nagaoka 
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ORGANIZER;CN=Human Palaeosystems Research Group:mailto:kutowsky@gea.mpg.de
SUMMARY:The challenge of relevance: Framing the impact of archaeological re
 search 
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