A book party honoring Brenda Moore, UB assistant professor of sociology, will take place from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13, at Talking Leaves bookstore, 3158 Main St., Buffalo. The party, sponsored by the Graduate Group for Feminist Studies, celebrates the publication this month of Moore's latest book, "To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACS to Serve Overseas in World War II" (New York University Press). The party is free of charge and open to the public.

Moore also will give a work-in-progress seminar on her research for an upcoming book on Asian-American and African-American women in the military. The seminar will take place at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 12, in 545 O'Brian Hall on the North Campus. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Baldy Center at UB. A light lunch will be served. It is open to the public and free of charge.

The Graduate Group for Feminist Studies and Talking Leaves bookstore will co-sponsor a book party for Claire Kahane, UB professor of English, from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, at Talking Leaves bookstore. Her latest book, "Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Women, 1850-1915," was published in December by The Johns Hopkins University Press. The book party is free of charge and open to the public.

Upcoming related lectures at UB include:

"UB at Sunrise" talk on the "Women's Health Initiative" by Jean Wactawski-Wende, co-director of the UB initiative, one of 18 vanguard clinical sites in the U.S. involved in the largest clinical study of women's health ever undertaken. The talk will take place from 7:30-9 a.m. on Thursday, March 14, in the Buffalo Marriott, Millersport Highway, Amherst. Breakfast will be served at a cost of $10. The event is sponsored by the UB Alumni Office. Call 829-2608 for reservations.

Lecture by Elaine Kim, director of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "East to America: Life Stories of Los Angeles Korean Americans," which features interviews conducted after the Los Angeles riots that raise many questions about gender and power. The lecture is tentatively scheduled for March. Details will be announced.

Lecture by Ellen Dubois, former member of the UB American studies and history faculties and now a professor of history at UCLA. Her talk is titled "What Difference Did Women's Suffrage Make Anyway?" Dubois has published widely and to great critical acclaim about the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Her talk will take place on Monday, March 25. Details will be announced.