Evaluation 2018:  Speaking Truth to Power

2018 marks the American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) 32nd Annual Conference. Taking place on October 31-November 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, Evaluation 2018 brings together evaluators, evaluation scholars, students, and evaluation users from around the world are invited to assemble, share, and learn from the successes of the international discipline and practice of evaluation.

What responsibilities do we have as evaluators for Speaking Truth to Power? When? In what contexts or situations? With what consequences? At what risk or cost? To whom, with what expectations?

• What is power? Who has it, and how can they best be influenced? What is the power held by evaluators and evaluation?

• What is truth? Whose truth? How can we best discover these truths?

• And, what is speaking? Whispering? Public pronouncements? Influence? Activism? And by whom on behalf of whom?