Keith Hayward

Beanbag offices, thirty-somethings living with their parents, Mickey Mouse T-Shirts — are today’s adults really staying children forever? Keith Hayward, professor of criminology at the University of Copenhagen and author of Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood, explores how Western society shapes adult identity and makes it harder for people to leave childhood behind. At Brain Bar, we’ll talk with him about this very topic — he’ll reveal why we’re less mature than our parents and what society could do to finally raise real adults.

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