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Syracuse University Alumnus Brandon Steiner ‘81, the founder and chairman of Steiner Sports Marketing, will speak at SU on April 6. The free event will begin at 7 p.m. in Crouse Hinds Hall, Room 010, and will include a book signing of Steiner’s “The Business Playbook–Leadership Lessons from the World of Sports” (Entrepreneur Press, 2003).

This year’s SU Showcase is restructured and focused around the theme of sustainability.

On Friday, April 9, the Syracuse University Humanities Center will present Religion in Scholarship, an interdisciplinary symposium exploring the changing relationship between religion and scholarly study. The all-day symposium will take place in the Tolley Humanities Building, room 304 and will be keynoted by Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University.

During the month of April, distinguished lecturers will come to SU for discussions on “Inhuman Subjects: Critiquing the Limits of Humanism, Human Rights, and the Humanities” as part of The Angela S. Cooney Colloquium on Law and Humanities.

The SU Alumni Speaker Series continues with motivational speaker, life coach and author Gabrielle Bernstein ’00 VPA.

Vamik Djemal Volkan, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia and a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will be the keynote speaker for “Translating Peace: Multicultural Responses to Conflict and Disaster,” a panel to be held Thursday, April 1 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Public Events Room, 220 Eggers Hall.

Syracuse University Library Associates will present noted political pollster John Zogby at its annual Spring Luncheon, April 30 at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center.

Syracuse University Library Associates will present its annual Mary Marshall Lecture on April 22 at 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, on the first floor in E.S. Bird Library, 222 Waverly Avenue.

When attending the internationally known and highly regarded South by Southwest (SXSW) festivals in Austin, Texas, ask questions and say yes.

The Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education and the School of Education will welcome Dawn Prince to give the inaugural lecture of the Taishoff Center Lecture Series on April 20.