Since 2021, the Rural Reconciliation Project has been co-hosting an annual Law and Rurality Workshop that convenes interdisciplinary scholars nationally and internationally to discuss in-progress work engaging broadly with the law and its relation to rural people and places. After hosting in-person in Lincoln and online, this year the workshop begins a rotation of local hosts and will be at the University of Iowa College of Law on Friday, November 15.
Shoemaker is a co-facilitator of the workshop, continuing hosting obligations in collaboration with the new local hosts at Iowa and Professor Hannah Haksgaard from the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law.
This fall, the workshop selected twelve papers and four incubator projects to be shared on two tracts, with international presenters from all career stages and representing diverse disciplines, including law, anthropology, planning, sociology, and history. The University of Iowa has also gathered a diverse array of impressive discussants to participate in the workshop from across the University of Iowa campus.
In addition to co-hosting, Shoemaker will be workshopping a project she is co-writing with Professor James Fallows Tierney from Chicago Kent College of Law. This project is tentatively called "Financialized Farmland."
