Third year student Maximilian Lechner-Scott is the host of the very first episode of Future Self!

Max is studying a Bachelor of International Relations and a Bachelor of Arts at the Australian National University. Their major is Arabic and focus area is the Middle East.

Max's ambitions lie in academia, specialising in urban planning in the Arab world. They interviewed Kristin V. Monroe, PhD., an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Islamic Studies Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky.

On Associate Professor Monroe, Max quipped: “She wrote a recent book (The Insecure City: Space, Mobility, and Power) about the urban process of Beirut and I cited her heavily in my last essay. Maybe a little too much.”

In their conversation, the pair discuss Associate Professor Monroe's path to academia, and the importance of identity: how who you are and how you identify can shape your research and how people will respond to you.

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Music: "Found You" by Atch
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Future Self is a production of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. It’s produced by Evana Ho.

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Future Self - Episode 1: Identity and research in the Middle East