All members of the global community including current Scholars in residence, alumni, and partners are welcome to attend events at Rhodes House.
Unless otherwise specified, BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL. If you are interested in learning more about a specific event at Rhodes House, please contact conferences@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk
The Board of Directors of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars cordially invite you to attend the Bon Voyage Weekend Reception and Dinner in honor of Rhodes Scholars for 2018.
The Canadian Association of Rhodes Scholars cordially invites you to the 2018 Sailing Dinner in Ottawa. All current and past Rhodes Scholars and their guests/partners are most welcome to attend. Meet the 2018 Rhodes Scholars-Elect and help send them off to Oxford in style!
Join Mallory Dwinal for a panel discussion on education and a new training program created by Bay Area leaders.
The Symposium will be co-hosted and brings together members of the Schwarzman and Rhodes Scholars’ communities to explore the ways in which the public leaders of today and tomorrow exercise values-based leadership. The Symposium will examine the challenges that public leaders face today and will also look to build a vibrant and strong network of Schwarzman Scholars and Rhodes Scholars Alumni from diverse places, perspectives and pursuits.
The world has seen remarkable gains over the last two decades. Polio has been eradicated, child mortality has halved and HIV is becoming a chronic disease. While there is still more to be done, global priorities are now shifting from solely preventing mortality to improving health for all. Acknowledging the complexity of health systems, this year’s conference will bring together clinicians, researchers, and advocacy workers to explore how we can maximise the gains we have made in mortality and optimise health for all.
Join us for the annual Rhodes Scholars in Britain dinner on 14 September and the Rhodes Open House on 16 September.
Mallory Dwinal (Washington & Brasenose 2009) used her time at Oxford to develop a new model for public high school-- one that replaces traditional teaching with a modified version of the tutorial method. They've just finished their first year of operations and have brought students, staff, parents, and board members to Oxford to deepen their collective understanding of the tutorial method. Come meet their team to learn about 1) the school model and 2) entrepreneurship and innovation in the public education space. More details.
Mandela Day Garden Party This year we are delighted to welcome all Scholars in Oxford and members of Rhodes Scholars in Britain to attend the garden party celebrating Nelson Mandela International Day. As well as honouring the legacy of South Africa's former President this is also an opportunity for the Oxford community to meet again at Rhodes House over summer drinks and homemade cakes. Please contact rsvp@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk to register your partner. Dress: Smart-casual
One of the most significant roadblocks to using modern machine learning models is collecting hand-labelled training data at the massive scale they require. In real-world settings such as clinical medicine, where domain expertise is needed, and modelling goals change rapidly, hand-labelling training sets are prohibitively slow, expensive, and static. For these reasons, practitioners are increasingly turning to weak supervision techniques wherein noisier, often programmatically-generated labels are used instead. In this talk, we will discuss recent developments in applying various types of weak supervision to problems in medical imaging and diagnostics, and assess future areas wherein the confluence of inadequate control and massive, unlabeled datasets could lead to new discoveries and reductions to an application. More details.
Entrepreneur-turned-educator Steve Blank is the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. Credited with launching the Lean Start-up movement, he’s changed how start-ups are built; how entrepreneurship is taught; how science is commercialised, and how companies and the government innovate.
This year’s convening serves as a platform to envisage the current and future role of business in changing the world for the better. We will consider how the evolving entrepreneurial mindset can be leveraged to tackle the greatest challenges of the 21st century - across sectors and around the world.
Join Professor Varun Sivaram for an intimate lunchtime discussion on his new book Taming the sun: innovations to harness solar energy and power the planet
We all have an internal biological clock that regulates much of our physiology and behaviour, allowing us to fine-tune our biology to the varied but predictable changes in the environment. Russell’s research interests span the neurosciences, but with a focus on the regulation and generation of sleep and circadian rhythms, and what happens when these systems go wrong across multiple areas of health.
Jim Barnes has never let the absence of sight define him. Born with limited vision, from a young age he was singled out for his love of hard work both in the classroom and on the sports field. As an undergraduate he was named First Citizen of Amherst College and was then awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, only to lose his sight entirely during his first year in Oxford.
In this presentation, which will focus primarily (though not exclusively) on the representation of women, we will discuss historical approaches to gender in the visual arts—images of, by and for women in pre-Modern contexts—as well as contemporary opportunities and challenges involved in diversifying our present-day visual environment.