{"id":47,"date":"2026-04-04T06:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:53:46","slug":"farewell-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/index.php\/farewell-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"FAREWELL LECTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday, March 13, 2026, I delivered my farewell lecture, titled &#8220;The art of stopping.&#8221; The lecture was in Dutch, but my notes have been translated into English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AFSCHEIDSREDE.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a> of the lecture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/farewell-speech-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lecture notes<\/a> in English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The reactions to my retirement were many and, overall, overwhelming. To get an impression, please visit my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7427612253404741633\/?originTrackingId=3hxw%2FOwwpmkrqVt9pUkgTA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement<\/a> on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, March 13, 2026, I delivered my farewell lecture, titled &#8220;The art of stopping.&#8221; The lecture was in Dutch, but my notes have been translated into English. The reactions <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/index.php\/farewell-lecture\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.van-steen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}