![]() We are beginning our fourth year of the Boomer Futures Think Tanks. The videos are available for viewing on this New Cities website. Finally the speaker series came to be called the Boomer Futures Think Tank. We publicized the second group as Boomer Futures speakers. The first speakers were part of a colloquium, American Studies 808. Instead of taking a purely high-tech approach to this interdisciplinary task, we decided to sponsor Think Tanks that bring people to the campus of the University of Kansas in a kind of old-fashioned way, people who come together from on- and off-campus, from towns and cities from the region, and from our nation. ![]() Part of the New Cities mission is to inform ourselves and a wide variety of publics about the multiple meanings and realities of aging in light of the fact that 10,000 baby boomers will reach the age of sixty-five every day from 2011 to 2030. Just as aging affects us all, aging influences all the academic disciplines and professions, many of which have been leading the way for years and others that are just beginning to take up the topic in teaching and research. Indeed, we often fear it and pretend it has nothing to do with us. 2011 Programs 2012 Programs 2013 Programs 2014 ProgramsĪging is an obvious part of all our lives, but generally speaking we know little about it.
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