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 Scarborough Campus, who deceased a year before the inception of the lecture series.[1] The series was inaugrated by Lester B. Pearson, former Prime Minister of Canada.[2]