1619 Project Session #2: Bodies on the Line: Prisons and Health Care

This four-event public programming series from the Bowdoin College History Department focuses on The 1619 Project, published last year by The New York Times Magazine. The initiative grew out of calls by our students and colleagues to address the outrage, protests and pain following the murder of George Floyd as well as the continuing importance of the Black Lives Matter movement.
For each session, two to three faculty members from the History Department will discuss relevant themes and readings. These sessions will be held remotely.

The goals of these gatherings are three-fold: to affirm the History Department's and Bowdoin College's continued commitment to inclusion and diversity in light of recent events; to use our skills as historians to analyze and share our interpretations of this current moment of racial reckoning for the Bowdon community with the help of The 1619 Project; and to answer the call from Academic Affairs to create programming for students, especially first-years on campus, during this difficult time.

Mass Incarceration, by Bryan Stevenson
A Broken Health Care System, by Jeneen Interlandi
Medical Inequality, by Linda Villarosa

Connie Chiang, Professor of History and Environmental Studies
Matthew Klingle, Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies
David Hecht, Associate Professor of History

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Co-hosted with: History

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