A Workshop With Anthropologist And Author John Borneman

October 2, 2026

Green and yellow poster labeled "MIND, MEDICINE AND CULTURE,THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, THE CENTER FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE AND THE HUMANITIES, AND THE LEO RANGELL PROFESSORIAL ENDOWMENT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS PRESENTS: A WORKSHOP WITH ANTHROPOLOGIST AND AUTHOR JOHN BORNEMAN" underneath is a QR code to sign up for the workshop. To the right of the QR code states "FRIDAY, OCT 2ND 10AM-12PM HAINES 352 Scan the QR code to sign up!" To the right of the text is a framed photo of Borneman looking stoically into the camera. Below in yellow writes "This workshop offers an opportunity to discuss Dr. Borneman’s work as an ethnographer in Germany and Syria since the 1980s on questions of intimacy, the state, violence, mood and politics, fieldwork, and his recent autobiography, I was Married to a Horse, and Other Tales of an Accidental Anthropology (Princeton 2026). Optional reading of 3 short excerpts from the book will be available to those who sign up. All are welcome! Coffee will be served. MIND, MEDICINE AND CULTURE,THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, THE CENTER FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE AND THE HUMANITIES, AND THE LEO RANGELL PROFESSORIAL ENDOWMENT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS PRESENTS: FRIDAY, OCT 2ND 10AM-12PM HAINES 352 John Borneman, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, received his Ph.D. f rom Harvard (1989) and taught at Cornell (1991-2001) and Princeton (2001-2022). His long-term f ieldwork has been in Germany and Syria, and he has written extensively on the relation of the state and law to intimacy and practices of care. In 2013 he was awarded the Boyer Prize for contributions to psychoanalytic anthropology."

Please join us on Friday, October 2nd, 2026 from 10am-12pm in Haines Hall 352 for a workshop with John Borneman!

Sign up for workshop here or scan the QR code in the flier!

October 2, 2026