Dr. Lucas Bessire: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Please note: This event has now transpired. A summary is available here.
Dr. Lucas Bessire is an American writer, filmmaker, and anthropologist, currently serving as a professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma
Bessire joins the Rural Reconciliaton Project, in person in Lincoln, Nebraska, for the first event in our Land & Water series on Thursday, January 26, 2023. In conversation with Rural Reconciliation Project co-creators, Anthony Schutz and Jessica Shoemaker, Bessire will discuss his recent book, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
In Running Out, Bessire journeys back to his native Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of decades of irrigation and other water practices that have taxed much of the Ogallala aquifer beyond repair. Faced with imminent depletion, Running Out is urgent and unsettling meditation on resource extraction, environmental change, and why we individually and collectively do what we do.
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Hosted at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Clear signage will direct visitors to the correct room for this event upon arrival.
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Hosted in the beautiful, second-floor Reading Room in the newly renovated Marvin & Virginia Schmid Law Library. Join us for an hour of informal conversation and refreshments with the Rural Reconciliation Project and Dr. Bessire.
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If you need visitor parking while at the University of Nebraska College of Law for this event, please use the “C” lot immediately to the south of the law building (McCollum Hall). An attendant will be on hand to give those attending this event a visitor pass.
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Unfortunately, we will not be able to livestream or accomodate remote participants for this specific event, but please follow the Rural Review for subsequent updates and reflections from the event.
Also, please watch for and follow other events in our Land & Water: Rural Resources, Rural Livelihoods research series here.
