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Congratulations.
You, by your own admission, failed to request time off well enough in advance to attend this event.
Your boss at least gave you something and your response was to decide that it was not good enough and he didn't know what he was doing anyway by not letting you just take off this time on short notice.
And so you quit without 2 weeks notice- and from a damned important job at that.
Some principles my friend. And good luck getting references when you go looking for another job and need them. I still sometimes tap into references from jobs I had many years ago- and I own my own company now! You never know when you might need to cross an old bridge again- and you just burned one big time.
Someone said just above, "You were basically doing them a favor by working there anyway."
I have spent many hours volunteering at Boy's Club in two cities during my college and post-college career. Quite frankly, these places are full of volunteer and employees (working at all the salary such programs can afford)
who think they are "doing the kids a favor by working there anyway."
Anyone with that attitude is best to never bother volunteering in the first place. These kids need people who care and will show up.
People who show up and work for a few weeks or months and then just leave do more harm than good.
Talk yourself all you want into thinking that you made a lasting difference in 6 months when everyone you work with has now seen you just take off for a very pitiful reason.
The lecture series you are embarking on is certainly a noble goal, but if you really cared about it and were a principled man, then why didn't you give 2 weeks notice and then start lecturing- or accept the one day off and then drive all night to manage everything?
Put it another way- if the organizations you are lecturing for were to find out what you just did, do you think they would still want you to represent them with a public speech?
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