Jesse Knutson, Ph.D.

Selected Speaking Engagements

• American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Seminar: World
  Literature: Circulations Outside the Modern. Presentation: “Unfashioning the Self in
  Sanskrit Kāvya.” Virtual: 4/8-11, 2021.
• Mapping the World through Courier Poetry 2. Conference organized by Yigal Bronner
  and David Shulman, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Presentation: “Unbearable Levity:
  The Gust of Desire in Dhoyī’s Pavanadūta.” Virtual: 3/23-24, 2021.
• University of London School of Oriental and African Studies Sanskrit Reading Room.
  Presentation: “The Other God Among Men: Political Spirituality in Late Classical India.
  Reading Kāmandaki’s Nītisāra.” Virtual: 2/25/2021
• Assembling Knowledge and Ordering the World Anthologies and Encyclopedias in
  Sanskrit Literary and Intellectual History. Conference, Department of South Asian
  Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Presentation: “The Poetics of Detachment in
  Medieval Sanskrit Anthologies.” Philadelphia: 9/21/18.
• University of Pennsylvania Comparative Literature & Literary Theory Seminar Series.
  Presentation: “An Orgy of Order: the Bhaṭṭikāvya and the Reproduction of Sanskrit
  Aesthetico-Political Life.” Philadelphia: 9/20/18.
• Laughing in Sanskrit: Four One-Man Shows (Caturbhāṇī) Recrafted. An International
  Symposium hosted by Seoul National University, Department of Asian Languages and
  Civilizations. Presentation: “Harlots High and Low: Social Registers and the Promiscuity
  of Sanskrit Poetry and Performance.” Seoul: 10/26/2018.
• The 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies, (ECSAS). Presentation: “The
  Poetics of Detachment in Medieval Sanskrit Anthologies.” Paris: 7/26/2018.
• The 17th World Sanskrit Conference. [Panel Organizer] Ādikāvyāni: Regional Sanskrit
  Rāmāyaṇas in the Early Medieval Period. Presentation: “An Orgy of Order: The
  Bhaṭṭikāvya in Early Medieval South Asia.” Vancouver: 7/11/2018.
• Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago. [Panel Organizer] Premodernity
  and the Problem of the Remnant: Perspectives from East and South Asia. Presentation: “Continuous Violence: The Oneness of Literary Art and Political Theory in Sanskrit.”
  Chicago: 3/29/2015.
• 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison. [Panel Organizer] Sanskrit Literature
  and its Modes of Production: Toward a Materialist Analytic. Paper Title: “Weapons
  Grade Spirituality: Kāmandaki’s Nītisāra.” Madison: 10/19/2014.
• Patterns of Early Asian Urbanism, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden.
  Presentation: “Poli-pleasures: King Harṣadeva’s Imagination of Polygamous Urbanity as
  a Mode of Politics.” Leiden: 11/11/2013.
• Rethinking the Local in South Asia. University of Pennsylvania Department of South
  Asian Studies, Conference. Presentation: “Eastern Gothic: From Kannauj to Bengal and
  Back in the Early Medieval Period.” Philadelphia: 4/12/2013.
• Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego. Panel: “Fabricating the Past:
  Narrative Literature and Historiography in South Asia.” Presentation: “Kalhaṇa’s
  Historical Aesthetics.” San Diego: 3/23/2013.
• Summer School on “The Conceptual Universe of the Mahābhārata”, Indian Institute of
  Advanced Study, Shimla, Paper Title: “Hellish Heaven: On the Mahābhārata’s Ultimate
  Antinomies.” Shimla: 6/14/2011.
• Articulating Cultural Traditions in South Asia 12th-19th Centuries. Conference, Penn
  State University. Presentation: Courtly Crepuscule: The End of the Early Medieval in
  Sanskrit Verse.” University Park: 4/30/2011.
• University of British Columbia, Asian Centre: Junior Senior Sanskrit Symposium (with
  Daud Ali.) Presentation: “Courtly Crepuscule: from Kālidāsa to Kalhaṇa.” Vancouver:
  4/6/2011-4/8/2011.
• Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting Panel: “Creating an Interface: The
  Challenges of Interpreting Varieties of Material and Textual Evidence from South Asia
  Part A: Religion, Ethnography, and Literature.” Presentation: “Staging Social Life in
  Ancient India: Meditations on the Mṛcchakaṭika.” Honolulu: 4/1/2011.
• Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Panel: Kings and Poets in Medieval South
  Asia. Presentation: “History Beyond the Reality Principle: Literary and Political
  Territories in Sena Period Bengal.” Chicago: 3/28/2009.