Friday 18/1

1)    10.00-10.30     Introduction

 

2)    10.30-12.30     Impulse paper: Dr. Thorsten Fögen (Durham): 'brevitas' in Pliny (and Cicero); Pliny’s epigrammatical letters (esp. ep 7.13; 1.11, 4.18, 5.15, 5.2, 9.38 und 8.7).

 

3)    12.30-14.00     Lunch

 

4)    14.00-16:00     Dr. Henriette van der Blom (Birmingham): Leadership in Cicero’s letters: ad fam 10.6; 10.10; 10.12 (reading materials attached!)

 

5)    16:00-16.30     Coffee break

 

6)    16.30-18.00                 Hubertus Theissen (PhD-student, WHU, Otto Beisheim School of Management) and Maximilian Theissen (M. Phil., Cambridge): Leadership Theories (transformational, authoritarian, humble)

 

7)    18:30-?                        Dinner at Café Malik

 

Saturday 19/1

1)    10.00-12.30           Plenum/group work (introduction by Dr. Jacob Mortensen [Münster]): Applying leadership theory on Cicero, Paul and Seneca’s letters: Methods and texts (convergence and divergence)

 

2)    12.30-14.00           Lunch

 

3)    14.00-15.30           Ph.D.-project presentations (specific issues to be discussed): Marie Andersen, Jóannes Purkhus, Sigurvin Jónsson

 

4)    15:30-16.00           Coffee break

 

5)    16.00-18.00           Evaluation of this semester and further planning (seminars, conferences)

 

6)    18:30-?                  Dinner