This December marks the first anniversary of Asad Haider’s passing. Asad was a brilliant student who received his doctorate in 2018 from the History of Consciousness program, which marks its 60th anniversary this year. In its synthesis of rigorous scholarship and deep commitment, Asad’s work exemplifies the ideals that have animated the History of Consciousness program since its founding. Honoring his memory is also an affirmation of the program’s intellectual commitments and of their continuing necessity at an urgent historical moment.

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The one-day conference in December will bring together scholars, activists, and friends from the institutions where Asad studied and worked over the course of his too-short career: UC Santa Cruz, the New School for Social Research in New York, Viewpoint Magazine, and York University in Toronto. Following Asad’s vision of engaged scholarship, the conference will reflect on his life and legacy, with particular attention to the questions raised in his doctoral dissertation on revolutionary political organization and in his critical assessment of identity politics, Mistaken Identity.

Co-sponsored with The Humanities Institute