After almost 40 years of dedicated work, Professor Robert Laffineur has decided to step down from the organization of the International Aegean Conferences and the edition of the Aegaeum series.
At the end of the 20th Conference, HYDOR, held in June 2024 in Amsterdam, he announced the transition of the series and of the organization of the conferences to the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati.
In August 2024, an "Aegaeum committee" composed of Florence Gaignerot-Driessen (chair), Eleni Hatzaki, and Jack Davis (members) was created at Cincinnati to manage this transition and continue the work.
We had the chance to express our deep gratitude to Robert Laffineur for his trust, as well as our respect and admiration for his tremendous work at the occasion of the Aegean Celebration 2, held in Cincinnati in March 2025. During this event, his appointment as a Rawson Visiting Scholar was announced by Daniel Markovich, head of the Department of Classics.