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Dr. Blum will relate the CSA conference theme to the impact of academia as an attempt to remove itself from its ivory tower makes central its relation to a public outside academia while glossing as unspoken and untheorized the struggle within the academic community for many reflective parties to make an impact. As a contrast, the relations of academics to their colleagues ‘inside’ to those reputed to be alike and similar, is a definitive precondition for reflecting upon their relation to the ‘outside. The exploration of the discourse on the impact of a field on the public must be fundamentally ambiguous and open to inquiry.