The International Panorama Council, in collaboration with the Early Visual Media Lab at Universidade Lusófona and the Institute of Art History (IHA, NOVA-FCSH/IN2PAST), invites academics, artists, panorama enthusiasts and researchers to submit proposals for presentations exploring the theme ‘The World at a Glance. Panoramic and Peep Technologies’. This reworking of the original title of Robert Barker's invention (1787), ‘Nature at a Glance’ (in French, ‘La Nature à Coup d'Oeil’), sets out to explore the modern desire to experience the world visually through panoramic or peep technologies, and to embark on virtual journeys.
The next IPC conference, which will take place in Lisbon, will present these intersections and remediations in the exhibition ‘The Cosmorama: The 19th-Century Hidden Travels’.
The conference will take place from 2 to 4 July 2025, with an optional post-conference excursion on 5 July.
The final conference programme, with abstracts and keywords, will be published in the ‘Conference Report’ section of the Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies (PIMS) Yearbook, Volume 3, 2025. Presenters will also have the opportunity to submit full papers for publication consideration in other sections of the PIMS Yearbook. You can find out more by exploring previous calls for proposals, such as the one for Volume 2, 2025, or the De Gruyter page dedicated to Volume 1, 2024.
Deadline for submissions: 27 January 2025
Please send all abstracts and questions regarding submissions to
For more information about the International Panorama Council and the conference, visit: http://panoramacouncil.org/