About Melissa Lane

•  Publication in June 2023 by Princeton University: Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political.
• Named the 50th Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, a non-degree-granting educational institution that is London’s oldest (founded in 1597), effective 1 August 2023. 
• Honored with Princeton’s 2023 annual Faculty Community Engagement Award by the John H. Pace, Jr. ‘39 Center for Civic Engagement.
• Made tenth appearance as panelist on the flagship BBC Radio 4 program “In Our Time,” this time discussing Solon the Lawgiver.
• Spoke as one of twenty-six philosophers worldwide in online conference, “What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine.

• Professeure invitée, Philosophie, École Normale Supérieure
• Publication in September 2021 of Plato’s Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion, co-edited by Panos Dimas, Melissa Lane, and Susan Sauvé Meyer, Oxford University Press, 2021.

(all events conducted virtually)

• Virtual lecture on the topic of her book Eco-Republic, recorded for the Festival del Classico, il Circolo dei lettori, Torino (Turin), accompanied by an interview in La Stampa
• Extended interview on “Solitude and Social Distancing” as an episode of the podcast “The Human Context” of the Denver Center for Humanistic Inquiry 
• Old Dominion talk in the form of a public lecture at Princeton University
• Seminar, class lecture, and student group meeting as part of a virtual visit to Duke University
• Langford Lecture as Langford Family Visiting Scholar, Department of Classics, Florida State University
• Keynote Lecture, Duke Graduate Conference on Political Theory
• UC Berkeley Kadish Center Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
• Stanford History of Political Thought Workshop
• Bergen Ancient Philosophy Symposium
• British Academy Conference on Quentin Skinner’s ‘Meaning and Understanding’ after 50 Years’

• University of Pennsylvania Classics Seminar
• Northwestern Political Theory Workshop. 

Events canceled, declined, or postponed due to COVID and other reasons:

• H.L.A. Hart Lecture, UK-IVR Society
• Summer Seminar co-leader, ‘Religious Diversity and the Secular University’, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge
• Co-convening the conference ‘Legislation and lawgiving: philosophical perspectives on antiquity,’ École Normale Supérieure
• Invited speaker, May Week seminar of the B Caucus of the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge
• Futures Lecture at the Edinburgh Futures Institute
• Keynote Lecture, Symposium Platonicum Pragense
• Professeur invité, Philosophy Department, École Normale Supérieure.

• Carlyle Lectures (University of Oxford)
• Sir Malcolm Knox Memorial Lecture (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
• Fifth Annual Joint Lecture of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Institute of Philosophy (Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Philip Hallie Lecture, Wesleyan University
• Gerald F. Else Lecture in the Humanities, University of Michigan
• Charles McCracken Distinguished Guest Lecture, Michigan State University.
• Lucy Shoe Merritt Scholar in Residence (American Academy in Rome).