How to Produce a Cultural Event. Case Study – ‘Rupantar’

The World of Printmaking’ by Dr Alka Pande held at Conference Room Visual Arts Gallery.

An online talk by Dr Alka Pande on ‘Flower Shower’

An online talk by Dr Alka Pande on ‘Flower Shower – An Exploration & Culture of Flowers in India’, hosted on Zoom by Khaki Lab.

(JDCA) is delighted to collaborate with the India International Centre (IIC) for its Meet the Artist (MTA) programme.

Alka Pande is the guest for the 272nd MTA, her illustrated lecture is titled, Curatorial Strategies for Museum Displays.

Darshan of Shri Ram in Hand-Held Paintings

‘Darshan of Shri Ram in Hand-Held Paintings’ by Dr Alka Pande at Kamani Auditorium on the auspicious occasion of Chaitra Navrari .

The River of Rasa: Understanding Indian Aesthetics

Alka Pande with Pinaki De

The Last Courtesan: Writing My Mother’s Memoir

Manish Gaekwad with Alka Pande

Raja Ravi Varma: An Everlasting Imprint

Ganesh V Shivaswamy with Alka Pande

TEDX CivilLines Women, Nagpur

Talk by Dr. Alka Pande – Unveiling Taboos: Learning from Women’s Experiences in Indian Visual Culture

The Bihar Museum Experience by Dr Alka Pande, an online talk on her experience behind the planning, creating, realizing and programming for the Bihar Museum organised by DakshinaChitra Museum Talks.

An online lecture on Art in Bihar Museum in Bihar on 30th July, 2022

Talk on ‘The Vilas of Desire’ by Dr Alka Pandeshedding light on Indian architecture and its beauty at The Indian Institute of Architects – Rajasthan Chapter in Jaipur.

Lecture on – An Introduction to Indian Art and Aesthetic describing definition of art, Beauty of Art: Shadanga Theory on Element of Art /structural organization, Line, Form, Colour, Perspective & Harmony and Rasa theory of Bharat Muni and Dhwani theory.

The Head of The Giant -Creative Process of The Work By Cristóbal Gabarrón – A Seminar at Instituto Cervantes with Dr. Alka Pande (Curator – Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre)

Lecture on Pha(bu)llus: A Cultural History by Dr Alka Pande

‘The Wonder House – From Temples to Homes’ and ‘The Ballad of Paresh Maity’ by Dr Alka Pande

Talk on Traditional Contemporary and Global Aesthetics in Visual Culture by Dr Alka Pande

The MAO – Oriental Art Museum of Turin, in collaboration with Il Giornale dell’Arte, hosted «Collecting Asia. Questioning the exotica and repositioning aesthetic canons “, a conference to reflect on the legacies and legacies of” Hub India | Classical Radical »widespread project curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio. Participated: Anna Somers Cocks, art historian and founder of The Art Newspaper (moderator) Andrea Anastasio, Artist Paola Gribaudo, President of the Albertina Academy of Turin Roobina Karode, Director and curator, KNMA, New Delhi, India Mami Kataoka, Director of Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan Myna Mukherjee, Co-curator Hub India, Engendered, New Delhi, India Navina Najat Haidar, Curator of Islamic art section, MET, New York, USA, Alka Pande, Curator and art historian, Davide Quadrio, Director of the MAO Oriental Art Museum, Turin Suhanya Raffel, Director of M +, Hong Kong Laura Vigo, Curator of the Asian art section, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Canada Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, Director of Palazzo Madama, Turin

Talk at Jaipur Lit Fest 2022 on Pha(bu)llus: The Anti Nude in conversation with Dr Alka Pande and Ambarish Satwik

Talk at Jaipur Lit Fest 2022 on The Sacred Feminine in conversation with Alka Pande, Arundhathi Subramaniam and Malashri Lal

Third Talk on Jayadeva’s Geeta Govinda: three Ashtapadi’s illustrated in Dance, Arts and Literature – Dheere Samire presented by India Habitat Centre in collaboration with Art Vision and Kri foundation.

Second Talk on Jayadeva’s Geeta Govinda: three Ashtapadi’s illustrated in Dance, Arts and Literature – Dheere Samire presented by India Habitat Centre in collaboration with Art Vision and Kri foundation

First Talk on Jayadeva’s Geeta Govinda: three Ashtapadi’s illustrated in Dance, Arts and Literature – Dheere Samire presented by India Habitat Centre in collaboration with Art Vision and Kri foundation

A virtual presentation on Art as Investment for the event of HDFC BANK Sepciale, Artvestrnent- Explore the World of Art!

A virtual presentation on The Fabric of art

Virtual presentation on Dance and Visual Arts-Dancing with the line

A presentation on Perception of Art – Transformation of Rasa to Anubhuti

A talk on Art, Obscenity, Prescriptions and Parampara by Dr Alka Pande, moderated by Arshiya Sethi at the event Arts and Law – What they don’t teach in art class organized by Kri Foundation in collaboration with India Habitat Centre

A Presentation on Public Art Projects

Presentation on Saura Art

Talk on Masterpieces of Indian Art

Lecture on ‘Sringara through Music and Dance’

Jaipur

A lecture on Ras Se Bana Benaras at the event on ‘Ras Se Bana Benaras – Kashi ki Mahima’

India Habitat Centre

A lecture the theme of ‘Museum and City’, talk revolving around India Habitat Centre

CSMVS Mumbai

Love, Lust and Longing’ Dr. Alka Pande, Madhavi Menon, Joshua Pollock, Sumana Roy Verma moderated by Mona Verma

Pune Literature Festival

‘Body Sutra’, A presentation by Dr. Alka Pande and discussion with Mona Verma

Pune Literature Festival

‘Why I am a Hindu?’ Dr. Alka Pande in conversation with Dr. Shashi Tharoor Verma

Pune Literature Festival

A lecture session on the ‘Panchtattvas : The Road Ahead

Times of India DesignX Festival

A lecture on ‘India – Many Modernities, The Journey of Indian Rasas

Frame Conclave

Lecture Session at Art Laws of India

The Piramal Museum, Mumbai

Lecture on ‘Badadeva aur Anya Kahaniya’ and ‘Othering the Museum’ at National Seminar on Etnographic Museums in India: Contributions, Representations and Future Possibilities

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya in Bhopal

Talk on Portraits at IGNCA

New Delhi

Heritage and Hersey – Art as Civic Duty – Transformative Power

Kamasutra: The Exploration of the Spiritual and The Erotic Through Indian Art and Literature

Bengaluru

The Essence of Indian Art

When Art Infuses Fashion

A Talk on Creative Consumerism

Patna

One of the discussants at Book Launch and Talk on ‘Tagore: Beyond His Language’ Edited by Imre Bangha

Navras: Understanding Indian Aesthetics: Alka Pande, Harsha Dehejia, James McHugh and Makarand Paranjape in conversation with Mrinal Pande

Jaipur Literature Festival

French artist Pascal Monteil in conversation with Dr Alka Pande “A Learned and a Happy Ignorance”, Digital Paintings by Pascal Monteil

Amaltas Hall

India Habitat Centre as part of the exhibition of digital paintings by Pascal Monteil on view at the Jor Bagh Metro Station the artist in conversation with Dr Alka Pande over a discussion of his work and artistic process

From the Click to the Digital: A History of Photography

India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 

Institute as Abhyas, Chaired by Dr Alka Pande

India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi  

The pleasure of Sartoria – The Dandy Nawab Wahid Ali Shah, Innovations and Contributions of Hazrat Amir Khusrau and Nawab Wajid Ali Shah at Main Building,

India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi 

Heritage Goes Pop: Design and Culture in Contemporary Times, Rooshad Shroff, Architect-Designer for the Prestigious Christian Louboutin Store, Bangkok and Giorgio Galleani, Head of Collections at the La Triennale di Milano in conversation with Dr. Alka Pande, at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival

Helsinki Photomedia 2016, Invited to present a paper in March 2016 at the Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland.

The Photographer’s Eye for Sharira – The Body Rediscovered in Modern Art

India International Centre, New Delhi

The Body in Modern Art, DAG Modern booth at the India Art Fair

Outside In, Inside Out: Decoding India’s Visual Culture, Steve McCurry, Vidya Dehejia, Aman Nath, Sudha Gopalakrishnan in conversation with Alka Pande at the Jaipur Literature Festival

‘Equestrian Legacies,’ Dr Pande In conversation with Hermes family member Philippe Dumas

Mumbai

A Conference on “Re-inventing Homelands: Art and Diaspora through the artworks of Shiv Dev Singh and Sheba Remy Kharbanda

The art of K. G. Subramanyan at Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi. In collaboration with the Seagull Foundation for the Arts

ABC OF ART: Appreciation, Buying And Collecting, Mountain Echoes Literary Festival

Bhutan 

‘Kafka and I’ an interactive session at the Austrian Embassy

 New Delhi

World Aesthetics’ at DJ Academy of Design

Conference Doing Memory – Art, Research and the Politics of Memory and History

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 

Gurudev: The Startorial Humanist At The International Conference On Rabindranath Tagore: His Writings and Art beyond Bengal

Budapest

Shringara book launch and the talk under the auspices of the Association of British Scholars

Baroda 

Beauty And The Human Form, At The International Seminar The End Of Art And The Promise Of Beauty

India Habitat Centre, Delhi

Shringara: The Temple Of The Body, Costumes Of The Mind – Alka Pande, Kalli Purie, In Conversation With Wendell Rodricks

Jaipur Literature Festival  

Integral Education: Creative Approaches In A Local – Global Context, Iind We Asc World Education Culture Congress 2012 Organised By Shruti Foundation In Collaboration With Indian Council For Cultural Relation And India Habitat Centre

New Delhi

Evolving A Narrative Of Indian Art, Kolkata Museum Of Modern Art (KMOMA) Kolkata

Valli and Devasena, Goodearth, Mumbai

Word and Image: Ramayana and Visual Imagination in India, The India Habitat Centre in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi had presented a Series of 8 inter disciplinary lectures

The Pleasure of Sartoria: The Dandy Nawab- Wajid Ali Shah, School of Arts and Aesthetics

Jawaharlal Nehru University

A..B..C.. of Contemporary Indian Art. Aesthetics, Buying and Collecting at Government Museum and Art Gallery Sector 10C

Chandigarh, India

ABCD – ARCO Newsletter of the ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair

 Madrid

RMIT KING POWER, Designing Masculinities Symposium, RMIT University

Melbourne Australia 

Addressing the expression of masculinity through notions of style, identity and appearance. King Power appeals to those with interests in fashion, design; cinema, cultural and performance studies; media, history, fine art, philosophy and theory

Abu Dhabi, Art Talks & Sensations. A Symposium-Performance. Cultural Foundation

‘2008 Beijing International Festival of Photography

Summit Forum. 1st Beijing International Festival of Photography

Engendered – Gender, Sexuality, Ritual and Religion. Lincoln Center for Performing Arts

New York

Talk on Contemporary Indian Art at the ARCO Art Fair – Madrid

The fourth Fountain has Festival of the Arts 2007 held in Goa..DRSTI into understanding and appreciating the two trajectories of art

PRAKRITI FOUNDATION

Chennai

Bombay’s Kala Ghoda Festival Topic of discussion: – Gender, Sensuality and Sexuality

International Literature and Media Festival held in Mumbai opic of discussion: – Gender Dictators

Kitab Festival

International festival of the image 2007 Topic of discussion: – East meets Eastside​ The speakers will discuss their travels with the image, how new journeys and technologies affect their practice in the fine art world, as either producers or curators, and the potential for showing work in the East

Lecture on “Authentication of Art” on Fake art in National Museum

Lecture on “The eye of the collector” on art collection in India habitat center during the Art appreciation course

Lecture on “Bhimbhetica to Hussain” on aesthetics of art in India Habitat Centre during the Art appreciation course

‘Hybrid Voices’ a lecture in Rome

Organised special lectures at Punjab University by Mark Tully, Shyam Benegal, Khushwant Singh, Benoy Behl, Pankaj Butalia, Shahid Amin and Arvind Gupta

Conceptualized and set up the Visual Arts Gallery for the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

East West Encounter-VishwaBharati, Shantiniketan

Shifting Demographics-East West Encounter

Osians and Lalit Kala

TAC- Perception – The Self and the other

Australia India Council- Managing Public Spaces

‘Mahishasurmardini: The mode of representation and its interpretation within the illuminated manuscripts of India.’ In a seminar on ‘The Cult of Goddess,’ at the National Museum

Tommorow’s Bluechip-Indian contemporary Art a presentation at the FICCI presentation

‘At the Feet of Vishnu, in the locks of Shiva, Ganga Lives’ at the ‘Ganga day’ a lecture organized by the Sankat Mochan Foundation

Scenography for the Rue Musicale ‘Tribute to the Gods, Glory of the Princes – The Festival of North Indian Music 14 – 18 Century’ organized by the Cite de la Musique

Paris, France

‘Jal Sutra’ a seminar in celebration of Water Day

India Habitat Centre

‘Borderless Terrain’ dealing with issues of identities, pluralism, cross cultural fertilization, border crossings and geographical mappings

‘Navarasa – In Contemporary Indian Art’

‘Aesthetic Experience – A Dialogue in Appreciating the Arts’ Eight week workshop

‘Cross Talks in Design’ a series of talks by eminent Designers in collaboration with NID

Initiated ‘Art Space’ – Urban Art Project at the India Habitat Centre

Set up the first Holistic Centre for the Arts

Art Folio at Chandigarh

Centre, Delhi in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs

Punjab  

Organised Special Lecture by Taron Puri, Spiritual Healer, on ‘Complementary Medicine at Gandhi Bhavan Auditorium

 Punjab University, Chandigarh 

Organised Special Lecture by Professor Yashpal, Ex Chairman, UGC and eminent National Scientist on ‘Between the Cosmic and the Intimate’ at the English Auditorium, Punjab University

Organised illustrated lecture presentation by Nadira Babbar, eminent theatre personality at the Government Museum and Art Gallery

Chandigarh

Organised a two-day cultural festival of Punjab called ‘Rooh Punjab Di’ at the India Habitat

‘Rasanubhuti’ a festival of classical music and dance at Nek Chand’s Rock Garden

‘Vartalap’ a three-day lecture series on the traditions of the Miniature Paintings at the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Sector 10

Chandigarh