The Professorship of Politics & Gender, Diversity & Equality (Department of Political Science) at the University of Salzburg, the DSP Gendered Body Politics, the ATHENA Center for Intersectional Research, and  are delighted to invite all PhDs, young scholars, interested faculty, researchers, and students to an academic exchange featuring guest speaker Dr. Patricia Prieto-Blanco (University of Lancaster).

Please save the date for this event exploring visual gendered hate online:

• Date: Monday, 12 October 2026
• Time: 13:15 – 14:45
• Location: Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18, Room: HS331, 5020 Salzburg, Ground Floor

Programme Overview

13:15 – 14:45 | Researching Visual Gendered Hate Online: Challenges and Rewards

Building on a decade of collaborative research, this event will focus on the pitfalls and successes of researching visual gendered hate online from a media and communications perspective and via a feminist approach. There will be space to share good research practices, as well as to discuss ways to improve existing research protocols that, while allowing compliance with institutional frameworks, may also constrain or counteract a feminist research ethos.

The event will close with a soft launch of the book “Visual Misogyny: Platformed Politics of Visual Gendered Hate” (Emerald), co-authored by Dr. Patricia Prieto-Blanco and Dr. Suay Melisa Özkula.

About the Speaker

Dr. Patricia Prieto-Blanco (University of Lancaster) has researched visual practices in the context of family photography, migration, activism, and online gender-based violence. Her work is both theoretical and practice-based, with a strong focus on visual methods and feminist, ethnographically informed approaches to research. Her latest work explores regimes of visuality and visibility in times of gender backlash, techno-patriarchy, and automation. In 2025, Patricia, together with Suay Melisa Özkula, led the CAIS working group Critical Interventions into Platformed Visual Misogyny.

About the Book

“Visual Misogyny: Platformed Politics of Visual Gendered Hate” (Emerald, forthcoming November 2026) offers critical insights into the platformed dynamics of visual gender-based hate.Pre-order: The book will be available for pre-order from October 22nd at the  Emerald Bookstore. A discount code will be shared during the talk.

Photo Credit: © Emerald Publishing