{"id":19462,"date":"2024-04-05T14:07:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/?p=19462"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:28:01","slug":"varda-nisar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/varda-nisar\/","title":{"rendered":"Varda Nisar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock member_tagline'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Affili\u00e9e communautaire<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0\">\n.flex_column.av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegkhpa-b6762fc7489196eaee875a26dff36286\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-b6762fc7489196eaee875a26dff36286 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-b6762fc7489196eaee875a26dff36286 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kaegkhpa-b6762fc7489196eaee875a26dff36286 av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-19459 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-19459 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Varda-Nisar-copy-495x400.jpg\" alt='' title='Varda Nisar copy'  height=\"400\" width=\"495\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Varda-Nisar-copy-495x400.jpg 495w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Varda-Nisar-copy-845x684.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56\">\n.flex_column.av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-1-c95a931dacecea67cdbed5c7ffe6c2db '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Varda Nisar (b. 1986) is a mother, daughter, and sister and holds a doctorate in Art History from Concordia University. She was the Scholar-in-Residence at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (2024-25), the Social Justice Fellow (2024-25) and Concordia\u2019s Public Scholar (2022-23). Her research examines the intersection of cultural and visual production with military regimes in Pakistan, specifically the role of museums in perpetuating a two-tiered citizenry.<br \/>\nHer work diverges in several directions, including art education and community outreach, as well as art activism. During her time in Montreal, she has consistently tried to foreground the work of artists from Pakistan and South Asia. In 2021, she organized and convened a speaker series titled &lsquo;(Art+Micro)History: Contemporary Artistic Voices from the South,&rsquo; which highlighted the specific concerns and artistic modes of resistance in Pakistan. In March 2022, as part of her Public Scholar fellowship, she organized and moderated the discussion, The Logic of Postcolonial Museums: South Asia Edition, featuring four speakers representing the diversity of perspectives and concerns in South Asian museums. She also developed a conceptual, critical space titled &lsquo;The Concise Museum,&rsquo; which critiqued the ways the nation-state of Pakistan maintains a colonial gaze toward its citizens.<br \/>\nHer current research interests include the weaponization of culture by military regimes, postcolonial museums, and counterarchives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,86,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affilie-e-s","category-affilie-e-s-communautaires","category-communaute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19462"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26575,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462\/revisions\/26575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}