Past Events
The auntie is a ubiquitous figure in South Asian cultural production. At the threshold of the nuclear family she has the capacity to both disrupt and consolidate heteronorms. This talk examines…
Dr. Vagistan, your favorite South Asian drag auntie, brings the nightclub to the classroom (and vice versa) to explain how critical social theory matters in queer nightlife. Touching on themes…
Tracing his trajectory across three intellectual projects—one on queer Indian nightlife, the second on drag performance, and the most recent on the figure of the aunty in South Asian public…
The Berkeley/Stanford Symposium is an annual gathering of emerging voices in the arts organized by graduate students at Stanford and UC Berkeley.
The 2023 Berkeley/Stanford Symposium, “In-…