Semester Start Seminar: Negotiating Consent in African Studies

CAS is pleased to announce our semester start seminar, focusing on the newly published special issue: Negotiating Consent in African Studies (Nordic Journal of African Studies). The issue is co-edited by Amanda Møller Rasmussen, Rune Larsen, and Stig Jensen, with contributions from, Therese Paulsen, Karmen Tornius, An Ansoms, Vedaste Cituli and Abdul-Gafar Oshodi.

The special issue presents a selection of case studies detailing the many complexities, contradictions, and, at times, moral and ethical dilemmas Africanist researchers face as they try to harmonize institutional guidelines on informed consent with both implicit and explicit expectations in the field.

During the seminar, some of the contributors to the special issue will present their case studies, followed by a panel discussion on how to ensure informed consent that aligns with moral and ethical expectations from both the field and home institutions in contemporary Africanist research.

After the seminar CAS will offer snacks and drinks to the participants and presenters.

All articles in the issue are open access and available here: Vol. 34 No. 2 (2025): NJAS Special Issue: Negotiating Consent in African Studies | Nordic Journal of African Studies