The Early Visual Media Lab — CICANT participated in the international event Shared Histories, held from 28 to 30 October 2026 at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, and aiming to establish the groundwork for a new Joint European Master’s programme.

On 28 October, Oleksandr Lyashchenko gave a talk introducing the mission and work of the Early Visual Media Lab, showcasing its ongoing projects. On the same day, the PhD candidates Rita Mandeiro and Isabel Pina introduced their doctoral research projects. While Rita Mandeiro presented A Regime of Proximate Visuality: Miniature Optical Media in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Isabel Pina gave a talk titled Cinema in the (Stereoscopic) Photography of Paz dos Reis: Aesthetics and Visual Experiences.

Organised by The Photography Expanded Research Cluster, the event brought together institutional partners from different countries and PhD students for a series of roundtable discussions centred around the theme of Shared Histories.