Events taking place at Rhodes House, Oxford and around the world. Current Scholars and Alumni very welcome to attend.
We will be hosting three sessions to cater for all time zones around the world allowing Rhodes Scholars alumni, Scholars in Residence and Scholar Elects to convene and interact with one another. Hear an update from the Warden on what's going on at Rhodes House and Oxford, meet some of our Scholars in Residence and spend some time connecting with Scholars from across the years and constituencies.
We are pleased to invite you to join the Warden, Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983), and Wes Moore (Maryland/DC & Wolfson 2001), at this event within our Legacy, Equity and Inclusion series. In this session, Wes will talk about his new book; 'Five Days THE FIERY RECKONING OF AN AMERICAN CITY' as well as his Rhodes Scholar experience.
We are pleased to invite you to take part in a conversation with Dr Stephen Bergman (Shem) (Massachusetts & Balliol 1966), author of the bestsellers ‘The House of God’ and ‘Mount Misery’, on the role humanity plays within medicine. Shem will talk about his most recent novel and the power of writing in dialogue with Dr Romina Mariano (South Africa-at-Large & Queen's 2016).
Open to Canadian Resident and Elected Scholars - Have you ever wondered how the 11 Canadian Scholars are selected from the tremendous applicants each year? Curious how the 2021 Scholars were selected via the first ever virtual Rhodes selection weekend? What the challenges and opportunities are for selection in each region in Canada? Register now to join us for this special event!
Australian Rhodes Scholars are warmly invited to a Zoom discussion with leading vaccine expert Professor Sir John Bell (Alberta & Magdalen 1975) on the evening of Wednesday 3 March 2021 at 7:30pm AEDT.
Education plays a pivotal role in our lives, workplaces, and communities and yet, structural, and systematic racial inequities persist.
We are thrilled to invite you to participate in a conversation between LGBTQIA+ identified Scholars in residence and alumni within the Rhodes community. Through an interactive, intergenerational discussion, this reunion event will bring us together to socialise and get to know each other, to celebrate the voices and accomplishments of queer Rhodes scholars while also identifying key challenges our community has faced and still faces today.
Southern African Scholars are warmly invited to a conversation with Dr Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983), Warden and CEO of the Rhodes Trust; the National Secretary for Southern Africa, Ndumiso Luthuli (KwaZulu-Natal & St Peter’s 2000), and Jacko Maree (St Andrew’s College, Grahamstown & Pembroke 1978, on Wednesday 17 February 2021 at 17:30 (SA Time).
Join us for a conversation with Pete Buttigieg, Swati Mylavarapu & Andy Kim.
We would like to invite you to this fireside chat with Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983) and Michael Sandel (Massachusetts & Balliol 1975) to talk about Michael's new book; 'The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?'
Professor Wideman will engage in a conversation with Chelsea Jackson & Field Brown on storytelling, freedom and confinement, policing, fatherhood, the inheritance of trauma and ontological stigma and reflect on his experience as a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford in the 1960s.
Join fellow Rhodes Scholars for the first Rhodes Open Skype Night! “Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” In the spirit of these words from Elton John, we believe that music and the arts can support our community to stay connected and help us to deal with an unprecedented crisis. Therefore, Rhodes Arts together with the Rhodes Scholar Africa Forum (RSAF) have organised a unique digital event.