Award-winning educator Melissa Lane will present “Plato’s Republic on Motivating Ecological Guardianship” at Boston College on September 18 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall 110. Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where she is also Associated Faculty in Classics and in Philosophy. Her most recent book, Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political, was awarded the 2024 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize. She also is the author of Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living, among other titles. This Lowell Humanities Series Lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required.