Keynote Speakers

Confirmed keynote presentations at the ALTER conference 

Katerina Kolarova, Charles University (Prague)

Katerina Kolarova’s work engages intersections of disability, crip, queer and critical race theories. The research for the book Rehabilitative Postsocialism was awarded the Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities. 

Forthcoming book (2025): Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability, Sex, and Race in Eastern Europe, University of Michigan Press, https://press.umich.edu/Books/R/Rehabilitative-Postsocialism2.  

C-TV (If I Tell You I Like You...) by Cordula Thym and Eva Egermann (Vienna)

C-TV is an award-winning film that uses satire to critique ableist and heteronormative dynamics in society. It depicts a fictional television station and its interviews with people with disabilities about their daily lives and their artistic and political work. Directors Egermann and Thym portray a world in which participation, inclusion, agency, and visibility are realized far more strongly than in our current world. Their film is playful, humorous, and experimental. 

The film C-TV is recognised as cutting-edge radical critique and excellent cinema, having been awarded the Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema in 2023 and the Golden Medusa for the queerest aesthetic work in 2023.

ALTER is pleased to screen the film and host a Q&A session with its directors. 

• Film (with English subtitles): C-TV, 2023, Austria, 30 minutes.
• Discussion with directors: 
  • Eva Egermann, https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/filmmaker/7305/
  • Cordula Thym, https://www.sixpackfilm.com/de/catalogue/filmmaker/3672/