Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities

At the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities, we encourage our students to cross boundaries. Great innovation and progress happens when together we learn from other cultures, disciplines and perspectives, and reach beyond our comfort zone.

Our Foundation Year prepares students for the faculty's BA programmes, giving them the opportunity to connect complex ideas and explore their intellectual potential. We help students to think more deeply and critically, be more collaborative, and look at ideas from many angles.

We're home to areas of study that cross disciplinary lines, from the Centre for Japanese Studies, to the Publishing Project, the Media Suite, Digital Humanities and the East Anglian Film Archive. We also offer interdisciplinary postgraduate courses such as  Gender Studies and Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies.

 

Research

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magna carta

The Mystery of the Magna Carta

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People

Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities

 
UK in a changing Europe panel
12 Mar 2020

Negotiating the future EU-UK relationship, what is at stake?

A one-day conference brought together expert commentators to assess what is at stake in the second phase of EU-UK negotiation, to examine the positions of key...

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Map of Jamaica, created 1675
10 Aug 2023

Tragedy and chaos aboard the warship Gloucester

The Gloucester’s troubled early history, intertwining maritime heritage with national and global narratives, has been revealed by research from the University of...

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An oil painting of the Gloucester as it sank.
10 Jun 2022

Wreck of historic royal ship discovered off the English coast

The wreck of one of the most famous ships of the 17th century has been discovered off the coast of Norfolk in the UK, it can be revealed today.

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