Trinity College in Partnership with the
Institute for Cross-Cultural Awareness and
Transformative Education (ICUTE)
 
COMMEMORATING
THE REVEREND EDWARD JONES 
TRINITY COLLEGE’S FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN GRADUATE,
 M.A. 1830
NOVEMBER 18–19, 2023 

Saturday, November 18 
WORKSHOPS
 Mather Hall, Washington Room
 
9:00–10:00 a.m. 
Return Renty: The Enslaved Ancestor of Tamara Lanier, Lanier vs. Harvard 
Tamara Lanier, Retired Chief Probation Officer, State of Connecticut

10:10–11:10 a.m. 
The Gullah Cultural Heritage
Emory Campbell, Executive Director, Emeritus
Penn Center, St. Helena Island, South Carolina

11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. 
Ernest E. Just: The Black Apollo of Science
Kenneth Manning, Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


LUNCHEON
Mather Hall, Washington Room

Keynote Address
Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Trinity College President and Professor of Neuroscience
 
Award Recipients
Cornelia P. Thornburgh ’80, H'22
William “Lew” Brown
James Thompson Jr.
Edward Joyner
Gregory Jones
John C. Norman ’62
Donald Harris Jr.



Sunday, November 19
DOCUMENTARY FILM
 
Family Across the Sea, directed and written by Tim Carrier
Cinestudio
4:00 p.m.​​​​​​​

The film explores how scholars have learned about the connections between the Gullah people of South Carolina and the people of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

For more information:
Please contact Benjamin Foster Jr. ’71, P’23,
Convener, ICUTE; Former Trustee of Trinity College