Curiositas is pleased to announce the addition of Sara Beirão Antunes to our research project team. Sara is a PhD student in Art History, currently holding an FCT scholarship. Her thesis topic is related to our research project, and she will be responsible for researching, cataloging, and curating a geographical and chronological visualisation of Iberian cosmoramas. This research will be part of her doctoral thesis and will contribute to the scientific objectives of Curiositas by providing advanced training in this research field.
Curiositas’ database on Cosmoramas enters the DARIAH ecosystem
The database on nineteenth-century cosmoramas developed within the framework of the Curiositas project was introduced into the DARIAH–EU digital humanities platform. The entries for the mapped historical cosmoramas were added to the ROSSIO archive, the Portuguese node...
Final Three Episodes Released: “What Is a Cosmorama?” Interview Series
The final three episodes of the interview series “What is a Cosmorama?” have now been released. The series consists of six thematic videos dedicated to the Cosmorama, a largely forgotten media device that nevertheless played a fundamental role in nineteenth-century...
Curiositas Joins the European Time Machine Ecosystem
CURIOSITAS has joined the Time Machine Organisation with a new Local Time Machine entitled Mapping Cosmoramas. Time Machine is a European initiative that aims to build a large-scale, distributed digital infrastructure for collecting, organising, and analysing the “Big...