Public Talks & Keynotes
Dr. Acres has delivered numerous invited talks and keynote lectures across academic, civic, and faith-based venues. These public engagements reflect his commitment to community-based scholarship and critical historical reflection.
- The Ashtons, the New England Company, and ‘modernizing’ an Indigenous Residential School: The Mohawk Institute, 1873–7
Keynote, Canadian Church Historical Society Annual Lecture, November 12, 2022 - Parish, Piety and Power: Framing Anglicanism on the Six Nations, 1880–1934
Annual Faculty of Theology Fall Lecture (Holy Cross), September 24, 2020 - Breaking of Trust on the Grand River Station: Nationalism and Indigenous Identities from Colony to Development
Wolfson Humanities Society, Wolfson College, Cambridge, November 12, 2019 - Evidence and the NEC’s Lands: Recovering the Mohawk Institute
Woodland Cultural Centre Documentary and Conference, April 2019 - Trust, Authority and Power: The Mohawk Institute
Woodland Cultural Centre Seminar, July 7, 2018 - Teaching the TRC and the Burden of History
Special Lecture, Huron University College, February 12, 2016 - Forming the Archive of a Residential School
Huron University College, January 26, 2015 - Monarchy as a Living Symbol: Multifaith, Multicultural, Multinational
Diamond Jubilee Presentation, London Public Library, June 4, 2012 - Religion, Rights and Work
Joint Equity Representatives, CAW and GM, Woodstock, Ontario, April 19, 2012 - The Meaning of ‘Religion’
Listowel Rotarians, February 24, 2011 - Eid Gala Keynote: Muslim Identity and Recognition in the University
UWO Muslim Students’ Association, Brescia University College, October 2, 2008 - Religion and the University: Historical Perspectives for the Future
Association for International Relations, University of Western Ontario, January 14, 2008 - Keynote Speaker
Historica Regional Schools Fair, Thames Valley District, Fanshawe Pioneer Village, May 4, 2006 - Monsieur Batignole: French Anti-Semitism and Gerard Jugnot’s Reading of Complicité
London Jewish Film Festival, November 2003 - Promises: Some Further Reflections on Israeli-Palestinian Children
Public Lecture, Huron University College, March 15, 2003 - History in the Knowledge-Based Economy
Invited Public Lecture, University of Windsor, November 22, 2001
Major Library and Archives Canada grant to involve Haudenosaunee Scholars in cataloguing and bringing to survivors and others materials in the Diocese of Huron, V. P. Cronyn Archives, now at the Woodland Cultural Center, Six Nations, Ontario. Worked with Archivist Dez Necario on the grant and its importance for the Six Nations culturally and historically 2023-4; Learn More.
Major Library and Archives Canada grant to Haudenosaunee Scholars in digitizing and completing online catalogues for materials relating to the Mohawk Institute in the V. P. Cronyn Archives, Huron University College, 2024-5. Learn More.