Lee Walters
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
UK-RSA Bilateral Research Chair: Digital humanities chair in culture and technics
Walters is a postdoctoral fellow at UWC’s Centre for Humanities Research, contributing to the SA-UK Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture & Technics. She recently received a PhD for her thesis, “From Cultural Work to Culture Industry: Affect, Labour and the Remaking of South Africa’s Arts Sector”, completed at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Her ongoing work attends to how culture and techniques in/of labour, race and gender profoundly influence historical, structural and psychosocial dynamics in arts and culture worlds in southern Africa, and elsewhere.
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Award Announcement: Oscillations wins Research and Innovation award at UWC.
The CHR is delighted to announce that Sound Working Group Convenors, Aidan Erasmus, Valmont Layne and Lee Walters have received a joint Creative Arts Output Award for their outstanding contributions to Research and Innovation at the University of the Western Cape.
Sound Art Exhibition (27 April – 19 May): Oscillations – Cape Town to Berlin – Sonic Inquiries and Practices
Critical listening is the first step toward an ethics and aesthetics of care and freedom. Discarding listening habits and accepting new sound qualities afford access to other layers of history and experience.
Dynamic Traditions: On the 100th Anniversary of Donaueschinger Musiktage
CHR Doctoral Fellow Lee Walters invited to contribute to Dynamic Traditions , a reader published by Elisa Erkelenz and Katja Heldt around the 100th anniversary of Donaueschinger Musiktage.
The CHR’s Lee Walters Presents at ICGC Brown Bag Series
Join CHR Doctoral Fellow Lee Walters for the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) Brown Bag Series on 30 April 2021.
Visiting Fellows at Jackman Humanities Institute
Aesthetic Education: A South-North Dialogue