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The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, a new world-class centre for the Arts and Humanities will open to the academic community on 13 October 2025 🏛️✨ A public cultural programme hosted by the Centre will begin in April 2026. The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, designed by leading British architects, Hopkins Architects, is a major new cultural campus in the heart of Oxford’s Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. The centre has been developed by the University of Oxford with the support of the largest single gift in modern times made to the University from philanthropist and businessman Stephen A. Schwarzman. Thanks to additional gifts, his total support towards the project now stands at £185 million. The state-of-the-art spaces will co-locate Oxford University’s internationally recognised Humanities faculties for the first time: Music, English Language and Literature, History, Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, Medieval and Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Theology and Religion. The Centre will also house the Institute for Ethics in AI, created in 2019 as part of the announcement of the Centre, the Oxford Internet Institute and the new Bodleian Humanities Library. The public performance spaces include the 500-seat Sohmen Concert Hall, a 250-seat theatre, a black box immersive performance space, dance studio and cinema, an exhibition space, a museum for the display of the renowned Bate Collection of historic musical instruments, café and bar, all set in extensive gardens. The Centre will provide a unique mix of academic teaching facilities for Oxford students and staff with world class research and performance spaces, bringing leading figures from different disciplines together to demonstrate the power of the humanities to tackle the major challenges facing society today. Find out more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/e2YMHeJF