Lee Walters
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
UK-RSA Bilateral Research Chair: Digital humanities chair in culture and technics
Lee Walters is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of the Western Cape’s Centre for Humanities Research, in the NRF/British Academy Chair in Culture and Technics. Lee completed her PhD at UWC’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Her ongoing work attends to how culture and techniques in/of labour, race and gender influence historical, structural and psychosocial dynamics in arts and culture worlds, including the cultural and creative industries, in southern Africa, and elsewhere.
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Humanities in Session: Facing the Heat in South Africa with Vishwas Satgar
This Humanities in Session will be led by Vishwas Satgar who will be in conversation with Lee Walters about his new book and exhibition, Facing the Heat in South Africa, on Thursday 15 October, 2026.
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