Watts Lectures

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