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

See also

• Massey Lectures