Conferences
Conference Papers
2024 Taha, S. 'Vibrant religious traditions: the Red Sea region, Eastern Sudan. Paper will be presented at the Red Sea Conference XI ‘From Local To Global. The role of local communities throughout the Red Sea history’. Will be held in Barcelona between the 5th and the 7th of June 2024. Hosted by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2023 Taha, S. The Kingdom of Meroe: Sensory Practices. Presented at the International Symposium of Egyptology organised by Shiekh Anta Dipo University and the Black Civilisation Museum to celebrate the centennial birth of Sheikh Anta Dipo. Dakar, Senegal 26 -29 December 2023. (By Invitation).
2023 Taha, S. Alula World Archaeology Summit, Suadi Arabia 13-16 August 2023 (By Invitation)
2022 Taha, S. Paper presentation on ‘Beja nomads Islamization and trade networks’ at the Workshops on different topics in the field of Islamic
Archaeology held virtually on the 28th October 2022.
2022 Fusion of practices in post Ottoman Suakin, Sudan. To be presented at the Red Sea X Conference. Held in Rethymno, Crete, Greece. Hosted
By the Institute of Mediterranean Studies and University of Crete, 6-9 July 2022.
2021 Nomadic culture , traditional knowledge and access to water. Presented at the workshop ‘Historical Ecology of Water Heritages’, Heritage Sessions
held virtually at Cambridge on 13-14 July 2021.
2021 Shell-fishing and handcrafts: traditions at risk. Will be presented at the SAFA conference, to be at St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford (Will be
held virtually in August 2021)
2021` Researching Children in Heritage Studies. Presented at: 'A Taste for the Past: a symposium in celebrations of Marie Louise Stig Sørensen’s
achievements and influences'. Held virtually at the Heritage Centre, University of Cambridge on 20- 21 May 2021
2020 Merchants, Nomads, Pilgrims: Their Roles in the Trade of Suakin, Sudan. Laurence Smith, Shadia Taha, Jacke Phillips, Michael Mallinson. Paper
Presented at the 26th EAA Annual Conference to be held in Budapest, Hungary, Held virtually on 26-30 August 2020.
2020 Sister seas: links between African Red Sea ports and the Gulf region from late Antiquity to the modern period. Laurence Smith, Jacke Phillips Shadia
Taha, Michael Mallinson and Abdelrahman Ali Mohamed. Presented at Indian Ocean World Archaeology Conference on ‘The Archaeology.
material culture and heritage of the Indian Ocean’ held at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, Exete 10-11 January 2020.
2019 Taha, Shadia Between the sea and the desert: connected landscapes. Red Sea IX, Lyon, France, 2-5th July 2019.
2018 Taha, Shadia Sea, boats and traditional knowledge. Africa Research Day held at the University of York, 25th November 2018.
2018 Taha, Shadia Incense through time: from pre Kerma to the present. The 14th International Conference for Nubian Studies held at the Musée du
Louvre and Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris, Monday 10th to Saturday 15th of September 2018.
2018 Unsustainable development: lessons from Sudan. (By invitation) University of Tras-os-Montes e Atto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, 2nd International
Summer University, UNESCO Geoparks, Sustainable Regional Development and Health lifestyles.
2017 Frankincense: traditions rooted in the Sudanese DNA. Paper presented at the Red Sea VIII International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea
region and their environment. Held at: The Polish Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, 4-9 July 2017.
2017 Laurence Smith, Shadia Taha, Jacke Phillips, Michael Mallinson. Trade and ‘Treasure’: the role of Suakin in the movement of valuables, 15th–19th
centuries AD. Paper presented at the Red Sea VIII International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea region and their environment
Held at: The Polish Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, 4-9 July 2017.
2016 Taha, Shadia Invisible Heritage: shrine visiting, the case of Suakin (Sudan). Presented at the African Archaeology Research Day (AARD), held at The
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 26 November 2016.
2016 Taha, Shadia. Sacred journeys: A lucrative revenue. Paper presented at the Pilgrimages, Ontologies, and Subjectivities in Neoliberal Economies’
Conference, held at the University of Sussex, Global Resource Centre, University of Sussex on Brighton, 18th July 2016
2015 Taha, Shadia. A life shaped by the sea: Suakinese ‘martimity. Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea
region and their environment. Held on 26-30th of May 2015 at Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”,Napoli.
2015 Taha , Shadia ‘Towards finding creative solutions in heritage and development’. Paper presented at the African Heritage Challenges: Development
and Sustainability, held at CRASSH, the University of Cambridge 15 May 2015 - 16 May 2015.
2015 Smith,Laurence, Jacke Phillips, and Shadia Taha. Archaeology, trade and pilgrimage at the medieval port of Suakin, Sudan. Paper presented at ‘Beyond the
Sea Symposium’, 29-30 May 2015, Centre for Maritime Archaeology Research Group, University of Southampton
2014 Smith, Laurence, Phillips, J. and Taha, S. Archaeology, trade andpilgrimage at Suakin. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference for Nubian
Studies, University of Neuchâtel, Monday 1st to Saturday 6th of September 2014.
2014 Smith, Laurence, Phillips, J. and Taha, S. Archaeology, trade and pilgrimage at Suakin. Paper presented at the 11th African Archaeology Research Day
(AARD), 21-22 November 2014, University of Bristol.
2013 Taha, Shadia Archaeologists and development in Africa: the middle way’ Presented at the African Archaeology Research Day (AARD), held at the
Sainsbury Institute for Art at the University of East Anglia 1-2 November 2013 (By invitation).
2013 Taha, Shadia ‘Invisible Heritage’. Paper presented to the14th Heritage Seminar, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 13th April
2013.
2012 Taha Shadia 'Not the way to do it’: the case of Suakin Sudan. Sharing Cultures 2012, 19th -22 June 2012, Porto, Portugal.
2011 Taha, Shadia Suakin’s sacred landscape: shrine visitation. Sharing cultures 2011, 2nd International Conference on Intangible Heritage, Tommar,
Portugal 3-6 July
2010 Taha, Shadia Your values, my values, whose values count? The 10th Cambridge Heritage Conference April 2009 ‘The Future of Historic Cities’ held in
Cambridge 19th -20th April 2010.
2010 Taha Shadia Sudanese Heritage in danger. African Archaeology Group Conference 30th-31st October ‘Africa’s Fragile Heritage’ held in Cambridge
on the 30th_ 31st 2010.
2010 Taha, Shadia My Research Methods at the GreenBridge Conference April 2020 ‘Taking Stock: Methods for Built Environment Research’, held at
CRASSH, Cambridge April 2010.
Presentations
2022 Beja nomads in Sudan: neglected history and bleak future. Presented at the ‘THIRD ḤAJAR WORKSHOP ‘People of the Desert: Nomadic Networks
and the Spread and Practice of Islam’ Friday, 28 October, 2022 (By Invitation)
2021 A community connected to sea: Suakin, Sudan. Presented to Africa Forum 5th March 2021 (By invitation)
2020 Female work in the maritime culture: Pemba Island, Zanzibar. Workshop held virtually at The Royal Agricultural University 11th November 2020
2020 Heritage of the Sea: Suakin-Sudan. Africa Forum 30th November 2020 (By invitation)
2020 The Heritage of Frankincense: from pre Kerma to the present. Presented to Africa Forum 21st February 2020 (By invitation)
2018 Ancient Sudan: The Lesser Known Civilisation. Presented to Africa Forum 30th November 2018 (By invitation)
2018 Women role in the transmission of heritage. Heritage Research Seminar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 25th October 2018
2017 Whose values? Shrine visiting: the case of Suakin (Sudan). Presented at Department de Geologia, Unidade de Argueologia, Universidade de Trsos-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal (By invitation)
2013 Popular Islam. Presented at the Lunch Time Seminars, Wolfson College Cambridge, 13th November
2011 Sustainable development in Suakin. Presented at GreenBridge Seminar Series, CRAASH, University of Cambridge, 4th March 2010
2010 Suakin at a glimpse: A Sudanese Port on the East coast of the Red Sea. Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, February 2010 (By Invittation).
2010 Sudanese heritage in danger. Presented to the Heritage Research Group, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. January 2010
2009 Suakin’s past and present. Presented to the Sudanese Community London – Sunday 1st November 2009 (By invitation)
2009 Suakin what future? Presented to the Sudanese Community London- 14th November 2009 (By invitation)
2009 Methods used to collect my data. Presented to the African Archaeology Group, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, May 2009
2009 Sudanese heritage: an overview. Presented to Research Students from University of East Anglia- at the Department of Archaeology Archaeology, Un iversity of Cambridge 13th November 2009 (By invitation)
2008 Suakin at a glance. Presented to the Portuguese Research Group February, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
2008 Suakin: research in progress. Presented to Interdisciplinary Seminar Group, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, March 2008. CRASSH (CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES)
Conference Organisation
· Co-organiser of the African Archaeology Group Conference to be held in September 2018, on ‘Africa on the move: People, goods and ideas’. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
· Co-organiser of the African Archaeology Group Conference on ‘African Archaeology: the last ten years’ held at McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, September 2017
· Co-organiser of the African Archaeology Group Conference (September 2012); ‘Connections, contribution and complexity: Africa’s later Holocene in global context’. Held in McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 21st- _ 23rd September 2012.
· Co-organiser for the 11th Cambridge Heritage Conference, April 2010 on: ‘Heritage and the Olympics’. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Co-organiser of the 10th Cambridge Heritage Conference, April 2009 on: ‘The Future of Historic cities’. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
· Co-organiser for the African Archaeology Group Conference, on ‘Africa’s Fragile Heritage’. · Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge October 2009
· Co-organiser for the 9th Cambridge Heritage Conference (April 2008) on: ‘Th Commodification of Heritage’, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, October 2009)
· Co-organiser of the GreenBridge Society - based at CRASSH (2009-2012). University of Cambridge