Talks and Events
Dr Mire’s new book is out: Divine Fertility: the Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in North-East Africa
Sada's new book Divine Fertility has been published by Routledge on the 25th of March, 2020. Buy it here"This is a confident, masterly piece of work by somebody uniquely qualified to carry out the relevant research... this is a remarkable and vivid book, which...
Dr Sada Mire wins the 2019 International Somali Awards’s Outstanding Educational Achievement award in London
In the evening of the 3rd of April, Dr Sada Mire was handed the 2019 International Somali Awards' Outstanding Educational Achievement Award by H.E. Mr Mohamed Affey, UNHCR Special Envoy for Refugees. "Dr Sada Mire is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist, art historian and...
Black history has much to reveal about our ancestors – and ourselves
In pursuit of a peaceful society, it is important that we record all perspectives of our complex human story.Black History Month, which runs through October, is trying to address a problem. That problem is, how to move the study of black history away from...
Sada Mire included in the New Scientist list of Inspiring Women in Science
Ada Lovelace and other inspiring women in science... As a child she was forced to flee Somalia. Now Sada Mire is back, uncovering ancient rock art and ruined towns. She told Curtis Abraham what it’s like to be the only working archaeologist in the region,...
Sada Mire selected for The Hay Festival List of Thinkers
Sada Mire selected for the international Hay Festival list of 30 thinkers and philosophers The Hay Festival brings readers and writers together to share stories and ideas in sustainable events around the world. The festivals inspire, examine and entertain,...
“The Role of Cultural Heritage in the Basic Needs of East African Pastoralists” translated into Japanese and features in this new volume
Mire's article: "The Role of Cultural Heritage in the Basic Needs of East African Pastoralists" translated into Japanese and features in this new volume: In reflection upon the worthy work of Professor Shinya Konaka and his col- leagues, this contribution...
First blog
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The Powerful Past: history, culture and diplomacy (a concluding keynote at UCL date: 25/05/2018)
Sada will deliver the concluding keynote on "The Powerful Past: history, culture and diplomacy" At the conference UCL and the British Museum in Africa and the Middle East: Current Projects, Future Agendas And for more details here Back to Events
“Somali heritage and Archaeology: how to use the knowledge of the past in every career”
Sada speaks at Hargeisa University Back to Events
Dr Sada Mire – Somali Heritage & Archaeology: How to Use the Knowledge of the Past in Every Career
Dr. Sada Mire who is an Archaeologist from the faculty of Archaeology in Leiden University held a thought provoking lecture at the University Of Hargeisa entitled “Somali Heritage & Archaeology How To Use The Knowledge Of The Past In Every Career”...
Sada Mire’s Pub-talk: ‘Knowledge of the Past as a Basic Human Need’
This month we have archaeologist Dr Sada Mire from the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Can cultural heritage (including archaeological heritage) be a basic human need? In the developing world as well as the developed world cultural heritage seems to be a...
UNESCO-Debate 2016: World Heritage – Target or Treasure?
"... a special occasion on the afternoon of 29 September 2016, when the philosopher Stephan Sanders and the archaeologist Sada Mire shared their vision of the painful topicality of Lucebert’s ‘everything valuable is defenceless’ with us – the deliberate...
Somali Heritage and Education: Celebrating 10 years of Indigenous Archaeology in Somaliland
Since 2007, Sada Mire worked for education and tourism development in Somali heritage. Her efforts in research, publication anddissemination of Somali archaeology and heritage was honoured in Somaliland in August 2017. Mire had the opportunity to celebrate...
Preserving Knowledge as a Basic Human Need: on the History of European Archaeological Practices and the Future of Somali Archaeology. An Interview with Sada Mire
By Sjoerd van der Linde and Monique van den Dries This interview with Sada Mire starts with the history and legacy of European archaeological practices in Somalia, arguing how it has contributed to a situation in which archaeology is viewed by many Somalis...
Mandela om Afrika’s Renässans
Mandela om Afrika's Renässans Nelson Mandela (2008). Photo: Creative Commons Mire S. (1998), Mandela om Afrikas Renässans, Africa Forum 5: 7-8.Back to Media