The 50th annual conference of the Northeastern Anthropological Association will be held on March 5-7, 2010, at the Marriott Buffalo/Niagara in Amherst, New York, adjacent to the campus of The University at Buffalo, State University of New York (UB). UB, which hosted the first NEAA conference, is pleased to be able to sponsor and host this 50th anniversary conference.

We have chosen as our theme “Borders, Margins, and Passages.” Buffalo, which sits on an international border, is an ideal location from which to think about these critical issues in contemporary anthropology, as borders become blurred or erased in an age of globalization, refugees and immigrants dominate attention to national identities, and anthropologists increasingly find that fieldwork takes on global dimensions.