The Research and Policy Forum on Youth in the Arab World

cordially invites you to
A lecture and open discussion

Kirsten Scheid

"In the Red Glow: Lebanese Elite Youth between Entertainment and Identity"

Date: Monday 30 March 2009
Time: 4 - 6 p.m.
Location: West Hall, Auditorium A, AU

Short Bio

Kirsten Scheid is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Beirut. She studies art modernisms, historiography, and contemporary art politics in Lebanon and the Middle East. She is the author of several articles on art and civilizing discourses in colonial and post-colonial contexts as well as a monograph, On Civilized Art in Primitive Places: Modern Art and the Formation of Lebanese Society. Kirsten received her PhD from Princeton in anthropology. Her newest research explores rites of passage common among upper class Lebanese prepubescents and the cultivation of elite subjectivities.

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