{"id":54,"date":"2023-12-20T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3topole.home.pl\/autoinstalator\/wordpressplugins\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2025-05-11T17:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:28:53","slug":"main-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-right has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7afa0167443dbdd9c3cfb0ed6d37a46e\" style=\"color:#770202;font-size:0.7rem;font-style:normal;font-weight:100\"><blockquote><p>The past is not waiting for us back there to recoup our identities against. It is always retold, rediscovered, reinvented. It has to be narrativized. We go to our own pasts through history, through memory, through desire, not as a literal fact.<\/p><cite>Stuart Hall<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center is-image-fill-element has-base-background-color has-background\" style=\"margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:2em;padding-right:2em;padding-bottom:2em;padding-left:2em\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(22.041px, 1.378rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 4.23), 36px);line-height:1.2\">Agata \u0141uksza<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-extra-small-font-size\">I am a theatre and performance scholar at the University of Warsaw, haunted by nineteenth century history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:0.4rem\">Photo by Jola Wachel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/index.php\/about-me\/\">About me<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250427-DSC_6501-4-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-525 size-full\" style=\"object-position:11% 42%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250427-DSC_6501-4-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250427-DSC_6501-4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250427-DSC_6501-4-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250427-DSC_6501-4-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250427-DSC_6501-4-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250427-DSC_6501-4-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-contrast-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-4b31f6f6b0a2ea206f12ab43d26a9aa4 has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5601dcf8 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#dfdfdf;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:0\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);text-transform:uppercase\">Recent Highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-23441af8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><ul style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list is-grid columns-3 wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/durham-durham\/\">Durham, Durham!<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">I have just returned from Durham, UK, where I participated in two academic conferences. At the Social History Society Conference, I discussed theatre fans in the 19th century within the context of emotions and affects (Theatre Fan History and the Power of Affects: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Theatre Fan Groups as Emotional Communities). I addressed the affective\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/durham-durham\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Durham, Durham!<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/on-womens-theatre-history-in-cluj-napoca\/\">On women&#8217;s theatre history in Cluj-Napoca<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">I am still at the Universitatea Babes-Bolyai (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where I had a privilege and pleasure to talk about feminism and theatre history in Central-Eastern Europe on the invitation of a brilliant colleague, prof. Cristina Modreanu. Cristina and a group of amazing Romanian scholars at the UBB have just started an ambitious project\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/on-womens-theatre-history-in-cluj-napoca\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: On women&#8217;s theatre history in Cluj-Napoca<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/agataluksza.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/review-in-the-journal-of-popular-culture\/\">Review in <i>The Journal of Popular Culture<\/i><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">It is a wildly exciting moment for any author when her work takes on a life of its own, is read and interpreted by others, starts a dialogue, a discussion, an exchange. 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