The F. B. Watts Memorial Lectures, commonly known as the Watts Lectures, is a series of public lectures held at the University of Toronto Scarborough several times annually. It was established in 1970 and named after Fred Watts, a former professor of geography at the University of Toronto and founding member of the University of Toronto Scarborough, initially known as Scarborough College, who died a year before the inception of the lecture series. The series was inaugurated by Lester B. Pearson, former Prime Minister of Canada.
List of lecturers
1970 — Lester B. Pearson, "Partners in Development" 1971 — Noel Annan, Baron Annan, "What Is a University For Anyway?" 1974 — Gerhard Herzberg, "Science & Society" 1975 — Raymond Moriyama, "Can Your Life Become a Work of Art?" 1976 — David Lewis (politician), "Corporate Power Today: The Image and the Reality" 1978 — John Diefenbaker 1981 — Mordecai Richler 1982 — J. M. S. Careless 1982 — Flora MacDonald (politician) 1983 — Alfonso García Robles 1983 — Hans Küng 1984 — David Suzuki 1985 — Stephen Lewis 1986 — Bob White (trade unionist) 1988 — Thomas R. Berger 1990 — Edwin Mirvish 1991 — Georges Erasmus 1992 — Judy Rebick 1993 — Major-General Lewis MacKenzie 1994 — Abdullah Abdullah and Itzhak Shelef 1995 — Roberta Bondar 1999 — David Phillips 2000 — Roberta Jamieson 2001 — Mark Tewksbury 2002 — Bob Rae 2003 — Preston Manning 2004 — Joe Schlesinger 2005 — Dr. James Orbinski 2005 — Dr. Sheela Basrur 2011 — Roméo Dallaire 2012 — David Suzuki 2014 — Jane Goodall 2019 - Beverley McLachlin