The Trans-Atlantic Rural Research Network (TARRN) will hold its annual meeting at Cornell during  March 23-25. TARRN is a network of scholars, both well-known and less experienced, from 7 institutions in the US and UK (https://tarrn.wordpress.com/). Member institutions include Penn State, Aberystwyth (Wales), Queens (Northern Ireland), Aberdeen and James Hutton Institute (Scotland), Newcastle (England) and Cornell. This year’s three day  meeting will be organized around 5 sections:

(a) Discussion of 5 think pieces identifying and examining emerging             and newly important issues for rural research,

(b) Informal discussion of new and mid-stream research projects,

(c) Panel discussion of “research into policy”

(d) meet the editors (editors of Sociologia Ruralis, Journal of Rural Studies, and Rural Sociology will attend)

(e) field trip to the Erie Canal Corridor on Sunday