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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 deceased 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 Garcia 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
  • References

    Watts Lectures Wikipedia


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