Conference Presentations

  • 2011 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Destruction of Libraries During War.” Book Destruction Conference, University of London. April 16, 2011.
  • 2009 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Threatening Fusions: When Ideologues and Demagogues Meet Ideas and Libraries.” Medical Libraries Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. May, 20, 2009.
  • 2009 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Extremism and the Destruction of Libraries.” CILIP Seminar, London, England, March 27, 2009.
  • 2008 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Destroying Books and Libraries.” Hawai’i Regional Meeting, “Traditions, Resistance, and Change.” March 15, 2008.
  • 2007 – Knuth, Rebecca. “The Wartime Destruction of Libraries.” Books on the Battlefield, October, 2007. York, England.
  • 2006 – “Towards a Solid Organization: Infrastructure and Awareness.’ Blue Shield Working Conference, Royal Library, Sept. 27-28, The Hague, Holland. [Attended]
  • 2006 – “Cultural Emergency Response.” Conference Sponsored by the Prince Claus Fund, Sept. 24-5, The Hague, Holland. [Attended]
  • 2006 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Destroying a Symbol: The Checkered History of Sri Lanka’s Jaffna Public Library.” International Federation of Library Associations and Institution Annual Conference, August, 2006, Seoul, Korea. (paper accepted)
  • 2005 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Book Destruction and Ethnic Violence in India and Kashmir.” Library History Seminar XI [Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change.] University of Illinois, October, 2005.
  • 2005 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Compromising Democracy: Militarism, Strategic Bombing, and the Destruction of Libraries.” Remembering and Reconsidering: The 60th Anniversary of the End of World War II in Europe and Asia. University of Hawaii, November, 2005.
  • 2005 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Prelude to Genocide.” Sixth Biennial Conference, International Association of Genocide Scholars, Boca Raton, Florida, June, 2005.
  • 2003 – Knuth, Rebecca. “The Destruction of Berlin’s Institute for Sexual Knowledge.” International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Annual Conference, Berlin, July 2003.
  • 2003 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Libricide: A Shadow Phenomenon.” Fifth Biennial International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Galway, Ireland, June 2003.
  • 2003 – Knuth, Rebecca. “The Destruction of Texts and Libraries in Iraq, 2003.” Hawaii Library Association Annual Conference, Lanai, Hawaii, December, 2003.
  • 2002 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Book Burning and Issues of Evil.” Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Conference, Prague, Czechoslovakia, March 15-20, 2002.
  • 2001 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Total War and the Destruction of Books in WWII.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, July 2001.
  • 2000 – Knuth, Rebecca. “One People, One Nation: Libraries and Nationalism.” Library of Congress Symposium on National Libraries, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2000.
  • 2000 – Knuth, Rebecca. “China’s Destruction of the Libraries of Tibet.” Lost Libraries Conference, Magdalen College, Cambridge, England, Sept. 2000.
  • 2000 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Libricide, Ethnocide, Genocide.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Conference, Mainz, Germany, July 2000.
  • 1999 – Knuth, Rebecca. “Genocide: Beyond Remembrance or Denial.” Conference on International Law, Human Rights, and Refugee Health and Wellbeing: Legal, Humanitarian, and Health Issues and Directions. Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 1999.

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