| 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. |
| 2005 | UNESCO and World Archeological Association Conference, “Cultural Landscapes.” Newcastle, England, April, 2005. |
| 2005 | International Studies Association Conference, Honolulu, March, 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. |
| 2002 | “Enlightening the British” Conference. British Museum, London, England, April 4-6, 2002. |
| 2002 | “The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive.” University of Edinburgh, Scotland, March, 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 | Conference on International Law, Human Rights, and Refugee Health and Wellbeing: Legal, Humanitarian, and Health Issues and Directions. Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 1999. |
| 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. |
| 1998 | “Psycho-Social Factors in Complex Emergencies” Conference. American Red Cross. Washington, D.C., March, 1999. |
| 1998 | Knuth, Rebecca. “From Orality to Literacy Through Local Culture.” International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Annual Conference, Amsterdam, August 1998. |
| 1998 | Pacific Telecommunications Council Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, January, 1998. |
| 1997 | Knuth, Rebecca. “Sovereignty, Internationalism, and Information Flow in Complex Emergencies.” Asia-Pacific Disaster Conference, Kauai, Hawaii. September 1997. |
| 1997 | ALISE (American Library and Information Science Educators) Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January, 1997. |
| 1996 | Knuth, Rebecca. “Trends and Patterns in the International Association of School Librarianship, 1972-1994.” IASL Conference, Ochos Rios, Jamaica. July 1996. |
| 1996 | Knuth, Rebecca. “The Case Study as Methodology.” Canadian Evaluation Society National Conference, Winnipeg, Canada. May 1996. |
| 1996 | Hawaii Library Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, November, 1996. |
| 1996 | Founder's Conference, International Space University, Pacific Area Center: East West Center, Hoolulu, Hawaii. 1996. |
| 1996 | Children's Literature Hawaii Biennial Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June, 1996. |
| 1995 | The 36th Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference, Bloomington, Indiana, June, 1995 |
| 1995 | Association for Library and Information Science Conference, Philadelphia, Pa, January, 1995. |
| 1994 | UNESCO World Symposium on Family Literacy, Paris, October, 1994. |
| 1994 | Systems Theory and the Postmodern Condition, Bloomington, Indiana, September, 1994. |
| 1994 | International Association of School Librarianship Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, July, 1994. |
| 1994 | Knuth, Rebecca. “An Integrative Model of Evaluation.” Canadian Evaluation Society National Conference, Quebec, May 1994. |
| 1993 | UNESCO/IFLA Preconference Seminar on School Libraries and Developing Countries, Caldes de Montbui, Spain, 1993. |
| 1993 | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Barcelona, Spain, 1993. |