<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class=""><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><a href="https://wiser.wits.ac.za/event/wiser-podcast" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;" class=""><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1028" class="" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D73201.987C7B90"></span></a></span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Today we release Part Two of our next mini-series of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);" class="">The WISER Podcast</span>.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This two-part series takes as its theme<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(32, 56, 100);" class="">Travelling Technology</span></b>. It draws on research led by Prof Richard Rottenburg at WISER spanning 15 African countries and focusing on large technical systems as well as stand-alone devices to reflect on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">amalgamation of techno-science with social, political, juridical and cultural elements in concrete African contexts beyond the modernist binary of nature and culture.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><a href="https://wiser.wits.ac.za/event/wiser-podcast" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">In this podcast</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">, after a brief introduction by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151);" class="">Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh</span></b><span style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151);" class=""> </span>(<b class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 192, 0);" class="">WISER</span></b>)<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>we hear from <b class=""><span style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151);" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(47, 85, 151);" class="">Katrien Pype</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(47, 85, 151);" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">(<b class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 170, 0);" class="">KU Leuven</span></b>) on “radio phonie” in Kinshasa, and then<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151);" class="">Sara Geenen with Simon Marijse</span></b><span style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151);" class=""> </span>(<b class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 170, 0);" class="">U Antwerp</span></b>) tell the story of the “scaphandre” on the Congolese Shabunda river. The two detailed studies show moments of translation in the circulation of technologies and challenge the difference between innovation, tweaking and improvisation.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">The members of the WISER Podcast team are Sarah Nuttall, Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Isabel Hofmeyr, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Mpho Matsipa, Achille Mbembe<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>and<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Bronwyn Kotzen.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; width: 917px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" style="text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">This communication is intended for the addressee only. 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