Call for Researchers – Centre of Excellence on Immersive Media Heritage

How might new media technologies enable us to recover or reinterpret forgotten technological histories? Can historical media practices illuminate our understanding of the contemporary digital condition? These questions lie at the heart of the IMHerit Centre of Excellence in Immersive Media Heritage, and we are looking for researchers who want to explore them with us. 

IMHerit is a Centre of Excellence led by Lusófona University, LUCA School of Arts and IADT - Institute of Art, Design and Technology. It focuses on immersive media heritage, from panoramas and cosmoramas to their contemporary virtual reinterpretations. We are looking for researchers from across the FilmEU ecosystem who wish to contribute to a collaborative, interdisciplinary research community devoted to the study, reconstruction and critical reimagining of such historical immersive media. We are particularly interested in welcoming researchers with expertise in, but not limited to: 

• Media Archaeology and Media History;
• Artistic Research;
• 19th-century Immersive Media such as Cosmoramas and Panoramas;
• Critical Heritage Studies and Art History;
• Digital Humanities and VR/AR research;
• Information and Data Visualisation and Cartography;
• Visual Studies, Photography, Early Screen Cultures, or related fields.

We invite all interested researchers from the FilmEU community to the FilmEU matchmaking session on 17 November 2025 via MS Teams. We’d especially welcome researchers from the new FilmEU partners. 

To participate: 

• Complete the Declaration of Interest form and select the option “FilmEU Centre of Excellence: ImHerit” by 31 October 2025.

After the matchmaking session, send us a brief CV and a motivation/cover letter to jose.candeias@ulusofona.pt until the 20th of November. 

We look forward to exploring these new frontiers with you. 

Left image: originally published in Le Nouveau Larousse Illustré: Dictionnaire Universel Encyclopédique (1898), adapted by Sandra Eelen, Hugo Rodrigues and Oleksandr Lyashchenko ; Right image: The Cosmorama in 29 St James Street, London. Blunt, C. ‘Popular description of the Cosmorama’, La Belle Assemblée, nº155, vol. 24, 1821