Events
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Call for Papers - Concentrated Economic Power and Rural Democracy - Interdisciplinary Workshop Hosted by Jessica Shoemaker and the Rural Reconciliation Project in Lincoln, Nebraska, in spring 2026.
The Rural Reconciliation Project and Professor Hannah Haksgaard of the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law co-hosted an online Law and Rurality Workshop in Fall 2025.
The Rural Reconciliation Project hosted Professor Hannah Haksgaard of the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law to discuss her new book on rural attorneys in South Dakota.
The Rural Lawyer: How to Incentivize Rural Law Practice and Help Small Communities Thrive is the culmination of a series of interviews Professor Haksgaard conducted with South Dakota’s Rural Attorney Recruitment Program participants. These interviews highlight the experiences of participating attorneys, reveal the program's impact, and deepen understandings about what practice in rural communities looks like.
Book Talk Event - The Rural Lawyer - Prsented by Professor Hannah Haksgaard - October 9, 2025 at Nebraska College of Law
Call for Papers - Law & Rurality Workshop - Hosted Virtually Fall 2025
Event video of discussion among the Rural Reconciliation Project and friends about rural futures, inspired by an upcoming premier of the Angels Theatre Company’s new play, Eminent Domain.
On November 15th, the 2024 Law & Rurality Workshop was held in person at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa). A joint project facilitated by the Rural Reconciliation Project at the University of Nebraska College of Law (Professor Jessica Shoemaker) and the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law (Professor Hannah Haksgaard), we were fortunate to have the University of Iowa College of Law (Professors Brian Farrell and Daria Fisher Page) as our local host and sponsor this year.
The Rural Reconciliation Project was honored to host Dr. Nicholas Jacobs—professor, researcher, and resident of rural Maine—to discuss his new book on the political attitudes of rural communities. The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America, co-authored with Dr. Daniel Shea, examines both historical and modern factors that have influenced and shaped the ‘rural voter’ and is the end result of the largest-ever survey targeted at understanding rural political beliefs.
Event announcement. Join Dana Fritz, Hixson-Lied Professor of Art, Art History and Design, for an important reflection on how humans make, shape, and understand landscapes. Like a virtual fieldtrip to the Nebraska Sandhills, but through the lens of the most thoughtful and introspective of guides, visual artist Fritz will discuss and share photographs from her new book, “Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape.” The book examines, in provocative ways, the unique hand-planted forest of the Bessey Ranger District and now includes some of the last images captured before the 2022 wildfires near Halsey. Event on February 21, 2024, at 4pm at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
Event details for a May 2024 spring prairie walk through the tallgrass hosted by the Project and Theo Michaels. RSVP required.
Event announcement. Join Dana Fritz, Hixson-Lied Professor of Art, Art History and Design, for an important reflection on how humans make, shape, and understand landscapes. Like a virtual fieldtrip to the Nebraska Sandhills, but through the lens of the most thoughtful and introspective of guides, visual artist Fritz will discuss and share photographs from her new book, “Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape.” The book examines, in provocative ways, the unique hand-planted forest of the Bessey Ranger District and now includes some of the last images captured before the 2022 wildfires near Halsey. Event on February 21, 2024, at 4pm at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
Law and Rurality Workshop Schedule for Fall 2023
This July, the Rural Reconciliation Project hosted interdisciplinary scholars in Lincoln, Nebraska, to discuss pressing issues related to the changing ownership of land and water resources.
An announcement of South Dakota Law Review’s upcoming Symposium on Rural Lawyers, marking the 10-year anniversary of South Dakota's Project Rural Practice.
Land & Water: Rural Resources, Rural Livelihoods - Introducing our 2023 research program series, including a range of events aimed at addressing the core question: Who really owns rural America?
Call for Proposals - Law & Rurality Workshop - Hosted Virtually Fall 2023
This event summary reflects on the first event in our Land & Water program series, with Dr. Bessire sharing his work on the personal and emotional dimensions of aquifer depletion in southwestern Kansas.
Call for Proposals - Interdisciplinary Land & Water Workshop - Who Owns Rural America? - July 12, 2023, in Lincoln, Nebraska
Land & Water: Rural Resources, Rural Livelihoods - Introducing our 2023 research program series, including a range of events aimed at addressing the core question: Who really owns rural America?
Law & Rurality Workshop - workshopping in-progress Law and Policy projects around an actual table (and also a virtual one) - Rural Reconciliation Project, Fall 2022
Summary and video of Dr. Christopher Ali’s discussion of rural broadband with Rural Reconciliation Project in February 2022.