28 February 2021
AARS - Urgency of Now 'Addressing Inequities in Education'
Education plays a pivotal role in our lives, workplaces, and communities and yet, structural, and systematic racial inequities persist.
Rhodes Trust Events
Events taking place at Rhodes House, Oxford and around the world. Current Scholars and Alumni very welcome to attend.
03 March 2021
An Online Event with Professor Sir John Bell (Alberta & Magdalen 1975)
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.
04 March 2021
Fireside Chat with Canadian National Secretary, Richard Pan (Ontario & Balliol 1998)
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!
25 February 2021
LGBTQIA+ Series - Reunion, Reflection, Dialogue
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.
17 February 2021
In Conversation with the Warden, Ndumiso Luthuli and Jacko Maree
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).
07 December 2020
A Conversation on Public Service
Join us for a conversation with Pete Buttigieg, Swati Mylavarapu & Andy Kim.
09 November 2020
Fireside chat with the Warden & Michael Sandel
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?'
27 October 2020
A Conversation with Prof John Edgar Wideman
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.
04 June 2020
Open 'Skype' Night (on Zoom!)
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.
14 May 2020
COVID-19: Chinese Scholar fireside chat
This will be a personal sharing and discussion session lead by four Chinese Scholars focusing around the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Chunying Zhang (2016, China & Lady Margret Hall), Naying Ren (2016,China & Linacre), Xilin Jiang (2017, China & University) and Yuhan Li (2018, China & Magdalen) will be sharing their experiences and thoughts about journalism, NGO response, infectious disease modelling, and wildlife management during the COVID-19 crisis in China. This will be an informal sharing moderated by Serena Dai (2016, Hong Kong & St. Catherine's), and questions you would like to discuss can be sent in advance to yichen.dai@stcatz.ox.ac.uk.
20 April 2020
Q&A with Devi Sridhar (Florida & Wolfson 2003)
Join Professor Devi Sridhar who is Professor in Public Health at the University of Edinburgh and have your questions answered regarding 'The Global Challenge of COVID-19'. Please submit your questions in advance to scholarevents@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk or have them to hand on the day to raise them at the session itself.
16 April 2020
Panel Discussion with Julie Levison (Pennsylvania & Wadham 1998) & Ruanne Barnabas (KwaZulu-Natal & Merton 1999)
Join Julie Levison and Ruanne Barnabas to hear perspectives on COVID-19 from two infectious diseases physician researchers from Boston and Seattle, USA. They plan to focus on issues of health equity for vulnerable patients, engaging the community, and health care work force in the setting of the pandemic.
22 February 2020 - 23 February 2020
Saïd Rhodes Forum on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon & Palestine (SJLP)
The Inaugural Saïd Rhodes Forum on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon & Palestine (SJLP) celebrates the historic partnership between the Said Foundation and the Rhodes Trust. Through an intergenerational and interdisciplinary approach, the conference will be discussing three indispensable themes: economic development, health, culture and education.