“John Strype’s Cranmer of 1694: A publication history”, Sixteenth Century Conference, Toronto, On. November 1, 2024.

“Mutual Responsibility and Interdependence: the ‘Huron cluster”, MRI@60 conference, St. Paul’s, Bloor St., 12-14 April, 2024.

“Modernity, faction, and mission at the Grand River Reserve, 1869-1884”, Canadian Society for Church History, Congress of the Humanities, York University, June, 2023.

“Mission, charity, and trans-Imperial ideals in Indigenous education, 1872-1896”, Global Meeting of Nineteenth Century Studies, Singapore, June 20-24, 2023.

“Becoming Christian and Indigenous in Canada: some periodicals, acculturation, and cultural dependencies, 1877”, ESPrit, European Society for Periodicals Research, Periodicals and Belonging, Leeds, 27 June, 2023.

“Martyrs, manuscripts, and Reformation: Correcting John Strype and the idea of an English Protestant Martyrology, 1530-1858”, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 28 October, 2022.

“Mapping an Indigenous Mission in Colonial Property Law, 1827-1934”, Law and Society Association, International Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, July 17, 2022.

“Ambivalence and Strife in Printing the English Reformation, 1690-1725”, SHARP, Amsterdam, June 15-19, 2020* postponed until Summer 2022, accepted, July 11-15, presented July 14.

“Writing Cranmer: John Strype and scholarly deception in the writing of Reformation history, 1690-1724”, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, San Diego CA, 28 October 2021.

Acres, W. D. and Matteo Clarkson Maciel, “Title and Disintegration: The New England Company and the Six Nations of the Grand River, 1871-1934”, Birkbeck College, University of London, April 6, 2020, Workshop on Critical Perspectives on Land Registration * (SSHRC-funded), postponed, given 30 October 2020 online.

“Assembling the Reformation: John Strype and the circulation of manuscripts, 1684-1711”, Early Modern British History Seminar, Cambridge University Faculty of History, November 27, 2019, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

“Indigeneity and the Book: Reconciling Research Techniques and Public Awareness”, SHARP at Amherst MA, 15-19 July 2019. (SSHRC-funded).

“The New England Company, Trust and the Six Nations, 1894-1934” Tri-History Conference (http://www.trihistory.org/2019.html) Toronto, June 18-21, 2019 (SSHRC-funded).

“Breaking Trust with the Six Nations: The Department of Indian Affairs and the New England Company, 1910-34”, Canadian Law and Society Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vancouver, June 3-5, 2019 (SSHRC-funded).

“John Strype’s Evangelical Empire”, Global Reformations, University of Toronto, 29 September 2017.

“Burghley as a historical figure: John Strype and the making of an English protestant hero, 1679-1731”, Midwest Conference on British Studies, Detroit MI, Sept. 24, 2015, chair Jennifer Mori.

“Printers, Protestants, Madness and Theft”, Research seminar, HUC, Faculty of Theology, January 26, 2015 (longer version of Antwerp SHARP paper, as below).

"A "religious" model for history: John Strype's Reformation, 1660-1735", SHARP 2014, Antwerp, September 27, 2014, Chair Lori-Anne Ferrell.

Acres, W. D., "Religion, History and the Enlightenment: From sacred biographies to the formation of the state", Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, London, Ontario October 16-19, 2013.

Acres, W. D., “Reading gender and sexuality in World Religions: An imagined public sphere”, at Contested National Identities, Huron University College, Oct. 17, 2013.

Acres, W. D. The House that Isaac Built: Huron, History and Canadian Identity at 150, "Huron, Religion and Theology: John Morden and the challenge of multicultural society”, May 13-15, 2013, Huron University College.

Acres, W. D. “Reflections on a Seventeenth Century male correspondence” Queer Research Day, Western University, April 17, 2013, “Queerness and the Past”, Panel with Christine Roulston and Wendy Pearson, Matthew Halse (Chair).

Acres, W. D. “Critical Reading for the Self?: A Perspective on Religion, the University and the Common Good”, The Idea of Religion in the Modern Research University, Cambridge University, Faculty of Divinity, Prof. David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, Association of Commonwealth Universities, Templeton Foundation. April 3-5, 2013 http://www.ideaofauniversity.com/conference/programme/

Acres, W. D. Acres, W. D. “Religions in the Liberal Arts: Resistance, representation and performative pedagogies”, Great Books, Great Questions: Interdisciplinary liberal arts education in Canada, June 29, 2012, University of King’s College, Halifax

Acres, W. D. “Christopher Dawson’s The Crisis of Western Education revisited”, invited panel, Great Books, Great Questions, as above, June 28, 2012

Acres, W. D., "From manuscript to sale to curiosity to edition: Lord Burghley's letters to his son, 1593-8”, From Text(s) to Book(s), An international conference hosted by Nancy-Université, June 21-23, 2012

Acres, W. D. “Religion in Globalization: World and Earth,” Global Studies Conference, Rio de Janeiro, July 18-20, 2011

Acres, W. D., “Objet de Vertu: Euler's image and the circulation of genius in print, 1740-60”, SHARP conference, Washington D. C., July 14-17, 2011, July 16, Session F6, S Dillon Ripley Building, The Smithsonian Institution

Acres, W. D. “Genders, Rights, Histories and Religions: Educating the Self in an Age of Transition,” 5-8 July, 2011, Learning Conference, Mauritius

Acres, W. D., “Discourses of religious diversity: A paradox?” International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations, Capetown, 20-22 June, 2011

Acres, W. D. and David Bellhouse. "Mathematical print and specialist knowledge in the Financial Revolution, 1660-1725." Royal Society Conference, Circulating Ideas in Seventeenth Century Europe, Networks, Knowledge and Forms, in conjunction with the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, July 8-10, 2010, Friday, July 9, Chair: Prof. Mark Greengrass

Acres, W. D. "Toward a Common Language in World Religions: Reversing the Categories." 17th Annual Conference on Learning, Hong Kong Institute of Education, July, 6-9, 2010.

Acres, W. D. “Re-imagining "religion": World Religions and the non-"religious" context.” Third International Global Studies Conference, Busan University, South Korea, June 21-23, 2010.

Acres, W. D. "Officers and Stations: Sources from manuscript to digitized as points of access." Appositions, e-conference, February 15 - March 15, 2010. Scott Howard, The University of Colorado at Denver.

Acres, W. D. "World History, World Religions: Shape and context in contemporary classifications." The World Universities Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 8, 2010.

Bellhouse, David and W. D. Acres. “Illustrating Innovation: Mathematical books and their frontispieces, 1650-1750.” Tradition & Innovation: The State of Book History Society for History, Authorship, Reading and Print, University of Toronto, June 23 – 27, 2009.

Acres, W. D. “Is history just a collection of biographies? Notes from a historical database.” International Conference in the Humanities, 2009 Beijing, China. June 2-5, 2009.

Acres, W. D. “What Are "World Religions" Teaching Us? Post-Imperialism in Contemporary Views of Global Faiths.” Second Annual Conference in Global Studies, Dubai, May 30-June 1, 2009.

Bauer, Michael and W. D. Acres. “Augmenting Historical Research with Databases: A Case Study of 16th Century Elizabethan Military.” 24th International Society for Computers and Their Applications, New Orleans, LA, April 8-10, 2009.

Acres. W. D. “The Secretary of State as a metaphorical figure: the case of Sir Robert Cecil.” UWO, British Faculty Seminar, March 13, 2009.

Acres, W. D. “From ‘text’ to context in the teaching of World Religions.” Second World Universities Forum, Mumbai, India, January 16, 2009.

Acres, W. D. and Jonathan Eeuwes. ““Two wrongs do not make a ‘right’: Defining the Public Space of Religion in Canadian Media, Two case studies.” Second International Conference on Religion and the Media, Teheran and Qum, Iran, November, 9-12, 2008. Invited. (Postponed until after the Iranian elections, 2009).

Acres, W. D. “Office-holding and holding on to office: A study of Elizabethan captains,” 1579-1603.” International Conference in the Humanities, 6th International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, July 15-18, 2008

Acres, W. D. and Michael Bauer. “Computing the ‘military’ in early modern Europe.” 2nd Annual Workshop in Computing, Complexity and the Humanities, Keynote speakers, Invited. Sponsored by SSHRC, NSERC, SHARCNET, Research Western, VP Research, UWO, June 16-17, 2008.

Acres, W. D. “University curriculum and religions: Museum, mausoleum, or mansion?” Global Conference on Knowledge and Learning, Chicago, June 3-6, 2008.

“Sacred and Secular in a Global Canada: Past, Present, and Future.” Chair of Conference Organizing Committee, Huron University College, May 9-12, 2008. Youtube Interview with Wil Craddock

Acres, W. D. “John Strype (1642-1737) and Lord Burghley (1520-98): The Biography Unwritten.” Modern Languages Association, Panel of Society of History, Reading, and Print, Chicago. Chair, Michael Winship, December 28, 2007.

Acres, W. D. “Defining Crime in Elizabeth I’s Armies: Two case studies.” Law and Governance in Britain, 1350-1850. The University of Western Ontario Law School. Chair, Margaret McGlynn, November 16, 2007.

Acres, W. D. “Irish Land and Faction in the Nine Years’ War.” British History Faculty Seminar, March 14, 2007.

Acres, W. D. with David Bellhouse. “Statistical databases in early modern English history.” British Faculty Seminar Series, March 14, 2006.

Acres, W. D. with Christopher Sinal. “An interdisciplinary approach to ‘newness’ in historical populations.” Paper and multimedia exhibit, International Conference of the Humanities, Cambridge, UK, August 4, 2005.

Acres, W. D. “Martial Men or Christian Knights: The role of the officer re-evaluated in Elizabeth I’s armies.” Session on New Currents in Elizabethan Military History, North American Conference on British Studies, Philadelphia PA. Chair, Dr. Barbara Donagan, October 29-31, 2004.

Acres, W. D. “Burghley’s books and their circulation: 1598-1725.” Renaissance Society of America. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Print Session, Tempe, Arizona. Chair, Dr. Germaine Warkentin, April 10-13, 2002.

Acres, W. D. “History, the Internet and the Commodification of Historical Knowledge in the Digital World.” Future of the Past Conference, The University of Western Ontario, March 17, 2002.

Acres, W. D. "Justus Lipsius and the neo-Stoic Garden." Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, February 12, 2002.

Acres, W. D. "Historical Space and the Internet.” Historians and the New Millennium Conference, Refereed, York University. Chair, Dr. Bryan Palmer, April 2000.

“The Ashtons and the Mohawk Institute, 1872-7”, Huron University College Research Day, presentation on Documents of the Mohawk Institute, 1872-7, 5 June, 2024.

"Modernity and Indigeneity at the Mohawk Institute: Cultural Erasure, 1872-77", Faculty of Theology, Spring Intensive presentation with Dez Necario, V. P. Cronyn Archives, 13 May, 2024.

“The Ashtons, the New England Company, and “modernizing” an Indigenous Residential School: The Mohawk Institute,1873-7”, Keynote, invited, Canadian Church Historical Society Annual Lecture, 12 November, 2022.

“Devious Histories of the Reformation, 1680-1727”, Faculty Seminar Research Presentation, History at Western Series, October 28, 2020, Invited.

“Parish, Piety and Power: Framing Anglicanism on the Six Nations, 1880-1934”, Invited, Annual Faculty of Theology Fall Lecture (Holy Cross), 24 September 2020 (SSHRC-funded) "Parish, Piety and Power: Framing Anglicanism on the Six Nations, 1880-1934." https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/.../tJwvcuqrqDksGtcZp...

“Breaking of Trust on the Grand River Station: Nationalism and Indigenous Identities from Colony to Development”, Wolfson Humanities Society, November 12, 2019, Wolfson College, Cambridge. Invited. (SSHRC-funded) https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events/humanities-society-breaking-trust-grand-river-station-1836-1934.

“Evidence and the NEC’s lands: Recovering the Mohawk Institute”, Invited, April, 2019, Woodland Cultural Centre Documentary and Conference, Invited (SSHRC-funded).

“Mapping the Hidden Litigation of the Grand River Stations”, Six Nations Genealogy Society, Woodland Cultural Centre (10 February 2019), Invited (SSHRC-funded).

“Pious Objects on the Six Nations: Education, economy and urban expansion, 1891-1930”, Huron Research Day, May 23, 2019 Invited (SSHRC-funded).

“Trust, Authority and Competing for Power: The Mohawk Institute”, special presentation at seminar, Woodland Cultural Centre, 7 July 2018 (SSHRC-funded), Invited keynote.

“Teaching the TRC and the burden of history”, Special Lecture, Huron University College, February 12, 2016

Citation for Peter Mercer, Alumni Award of Distinction, FASS Convocation, 2015

“Forming the archive of an Indian Residential School”, Huron University College, January 26, 2015

Citation for the Most Rev. and Most Honorable John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, Honorary Doctorate in Divinity, October 23, 2013, Huron University College

“Live and Become”, Introduction and facilitated discussion, CINEJUDAICA, Western University, March 14, 2013, Labatt Centre, 7pm

“Religion and Community: Some Contemporary Situations in Rights, Law and Personhood in Canada,” Continuing Education half-course, Huron University College, Faculty of Theology, March 2, 2013

“Monarchy as a living symbol: Multifaith, Multicultural, Multinational” Diamond Jubilee Presentation, London Public Library, June 4, 2012 Monarchist League, English Speaking Union

“Religion, Rights and Work”, Presentation to Joint Equity Representatives, CAW and GM, Woodstock Ontario, 19 April, 2012

“Am I religious?” Special presentation at The Retreat, November 5, 2011, Ottawa Valley, with radio interviews at local stations.

Invited participant at scholarly roundtable: “Catholicity and Catholic Schools in Ontario”, Chair: Dr. Derek J Allison, Althouse College, UWO, July 21, 2011

Two classes, Catholic Central Secondary School, June 17, 2011, ‘What Is religion and how is it studied in the Universities?’

The Meaning of ‘Religion’, Listowel Rotarians, February 24, 2011, invited

“Am I religious?” Continuing Education half-course, Faculty of Theology, Huron University College, February 12, 2011.

“Scriptural Reasoning Presentation”, Abraham’’s Café, London Public Library, November 26, 2010, with Faculty of Theology, Huron University College, Facilitator.

“Is the Spiritual Buffet on the Table?” Continuing Education half-course, Faculty of Theology, Huron University College, January 16, 2010.

Eid Gala Keynote. “Muslim identity and recognition in the University: recent publications and their importance.” UWO Muslim Students’ Association, Brescia University College, October 2, 2008.

“Ever Again.” Discussion leader and author of critique of Ever Again, an investigation into uncritical use of anti-Semitism in understanding Islam. Huron University College, February 21, 2008.

Acres, W. D and Michael Bauer, “The Historical Database and a military population: defining terms and parameters.” Huron University College, Faculty Colloquium, February 14, 2008.

“Religion and the University: historical perspectives for the future.” Association for International Relations, USC, University of Western Ontario, speaker series (invited), January 14, 2008.

Keynote Speaker, Historica regional schools fair, Thames Valley District, Fanshawe Pioneer Village, May 4, 2006.

“The theatricality of court and battle.” Invited presenter, seminar, Colgate College, Williams, New York. For Susan Cerasano, Senior English seminar. November 4, 2004.

“Mapping the Sacred and Secular in the English Renaissance.” Faculty of Theology, Huron University College, Invited Holy Cross Annual Lecture, September 15, 2004.

“Monsieur Batignole: French Anti-Semitism and Gerard Jugnot’s reading of complicite in Occupied France.” London Jewish Film Festival, November 2003.

“Promises: Some further reflections on Israeli-Palestinian children.” Children in the War Zone. Public Lecture, Huron University College, March 15, 2003.

“History in the Knowledge-Based Economy.” Invited Public Lecture, The University of Windsor, November 22, 2001.