UB’s Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender is collecting student work for publication in its new academic journal dedicated to undergraduate student research and creativity, called “Speakeasy: an Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Art.” We ask that you please consider sending out the following call for work to the students in your departments on behalf of the Gender Institute. If you have any questions or concerns, or have students who would be interested in joining the staff of Speakeasy, please contact the managing editor, Marina Wright, at
mewright@buffalo.edu .

Below and attached is the call for work.

Speakeasy: An Undergraduate  Journal of Research and Creative Art is now accepting submissions. We are a staff of undergraduate students that is funded by the University at Buffalo Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (Gender Institute – IREWG), and our publication is dedicated to subjects pertaining to gender, sexuality and feminism in all its forms, from the academic to the creative.
The staff welcomes research papers, fiction prose and poetry, and visual art, as well as responses to previous issues. Our goal is to create an academically fueled dialogue for all students interested in gender and sexuality. Subject matter in our publication focuses on, but is not limited to, subjects explored in the feminist field.
Topics we have explored in the past: shaving etiquette, personal abortion stories both from those receiving the abortion and from health care providers, genital mutilation, gendered American politics, gendered bodies in literature, plastic surgery, architectural design of lesbian public spaces, and pick-up lines and catcalls.

The theme for our Winter Issue is biblical women and effects on modern culture.
The deadline for our Winter Issue is December 5th, 2009.

The theme we will be exploring in our Spring Issue is media and pop culture representations of gendered and transgendered people. The deadline for our Spring Issue is March 1st, 2010.

We also welcome for every Issue:
-Music, book, performance art, and movie reviews
-Personal accounts of gendered experiences (good or bad)
-Research and critical essays on literature, digital media, and creative art
-Drawings, Paintings, Sketches, Figure studies
-Responses to previous issues’ articles
Please send any submissions to the staff of Speakeasy at mewright@buffalo.edu

The Graduate Group for Queer Studies wants to see you work it.
That is, the GGQS is planning this semester and next to conduct several Intensive Paper Workshops, devoted to ‘in progress’ work developed by you, related to ideas and problems in and around queer theory. Somewhat more informal than the usual “Works-in-Progress” events we’re accustomed to, these workshops are designed to examine work that you have a definite investment in, yet is still very much in process – a seminar paper, a conference paper, etc. which you would like to continue to develop and refine. As opposed to a faculty respondent, these papers will be subjected to the rigorous examination of your peers.
Queer theory often prides itself on errancy when it comes to strict definition; nonetheless, what are we looking for? A few suggestions: a structuring idea for GGQS this year is reflexive consideration of what queer theory names, and exploration of what else it might be, in deviation from the characteristic trends of current scholarship in the field. Consequently, any work that takes up the question ‘why queer theory?’ is of great interest. Also, in light of next semester’s Humanities Institute/Queer Theory Workshop’s (first-ever!) conference, “At the Limit: Pornography and the Humanities,” as well as Tim Dean’s pornography seminar, work that takes up the intersection of queer theory and pornography is obviously welcomed. Given queer theory’s amorphousness, however, as well as its ability to permeate many different discourses, take these as only two suggestions among many: any submitted work will be considered.
Please contact Matt Pieknik, President, GGQS at (mpieknik@buffalo.edu) at your earliest convenience if interested. In the meantime, please forward this to any appropriate student groups or departments with whom you may be affiliated.

Never before has there been a year where so many women became Laureates, with 3 women selected for a Nobel in the sciences.

A record year for women:
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/12/world/AP-EU-Nobel-Women-Glance.html?scp=9&sq=Ada%20Yonath&st=cse>

NOBEL PRIZES 2009
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/2009.html

Female Nobel Prize Laureates
<http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/women.html>

2009 Female Nobel Prize Laureates

CHEMISTRY: Ada E. Yonath
PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE: Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Grieder
LITERATURE: Herta Mueller
ECONOMICS: Elinor Ostrom