Dr. James M. Harland

• Ethnic Identity in Early Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (In Vorbereitung).

• (mit Matthias Friedrich) Interrogating the ‘Germanic’: a category and its use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Berlin, New York 2020 (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 123).

• Anthropological Theory and Historians: Moving Beyond Texts, in B. Effros (Hg.), Archaeology for Historians: Why Material Evidence is Changing How We Understand the Early Middle Ages (in Vorbereitung).
• A Habitus Barbarus in Sub-Roman Britain?, in: J. M. Harland & M. Friedrich (Hg.), Interrogating the 'Germanic'. A Category and its Use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Berlin/New York 2020, S. 167–188.
• (mit Matthias Friedrich) Introduction: The 'Germanic' and its Discontents, in: J. M. Harland & M. Friedrich (Hg.), Interrogating the 'Germanic'. A Category and its Use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Berlin/New York 2020, S. 1–18.
• ‘Memories of Migration? The “Anglo-Saxon” burial costume of the fifth century AD,’ in: Antiquity 93.370 (2019), S. 954–969.
• ‘Imagining the Saxons in Late Antique Gaul,’ in M. Hardt, M. Augstein & B. Ludowici (Hg.), Sächsische Leute und Länder: The Naming and Localising of Group Identities in the first Millennium AD. Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung 10. Braunschweig 2019, S. 45–56.
• ‘Rethinking Ethnicity and “Otherness” in early Anglo-Saxon England,’ in: Medieval Worlds 5 (2017), S. 113–142.
• ‘“Race” in The Trenches: Anglo-Saxons, ethnicity, and the misuse of the medieval past,’ The Public Medievalist: Race and Racism in Middle Ages, 02/17/2017 (Online-Zugriff).

• (mit V. Egetenmeyr) ‘The “Self” and the “Other”: The Construction and Perception of “Otherness” in Late Antiquity. International Workshop: Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, 23.–25.11.2016, in: Bolletino di Studi Latini 47.1 (2017), S. 324–329.

Conference Organisation

• The Genetic Turn in Early Medieval Migration Research: Challenging the Re-emergence of Biological Essentialism in Historical Identity Studies,' Tübingen, April 2020
• Material Narratives in Late Antiquity, Panel Series at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 2019
• Interrogating the 'Germanic': A Category and its use in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, University of York, 13-15 May 2016

Keynote Lectures

• ‘The Northwestern Provinces in Crisis: Some reflections on Julian's campaigns on the Rhine and the economic reorientation of Britain and Northern Gaul,' Antikeseminar der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, November 2019
• ‘A Comparative Approach to Lowland Britain and Northern Gaul,’ Migration Kolloquium, DFG Kollegforschergruppe, “Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, April 2019
• ‘The Archaeology of the Aduentus Saxonum: Rethinking Ethnicity in Britain during the so-called “Migration Age”,’ School Research Seminar, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, October 2018
• ‘Deconstructing Anglo-Saxon Archaeology: an introduction,’ Institute for Historical Research Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism, May 2018
• ‘Rethinking Ethnicity in Britain During the “Migration Period”,’ Mittelalterseminar der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, January 2018
• ‘The End of Roman Rule and the Adventus Saxonum: rethinking ethnicity in post-Roman Britain,’ Roman Archaeology Research Seminar, University of Newcastle, February 2017

Conference Papers

• The Northwestern Provinces in Crisis: Julian’s Campaigns on the Rhine and the Reorientation of the Late Roman Economy, Universität Innsbruck, November 2019
• ‘Militarisation in Unexpected Places? Rethinking ethnicity and the post-Roman transition at the early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery of Spong Hill, Norfolk,’ Early Medieval Militarisation: An Archaeological Perspective, Freiburg, November 2018
• ‘Memories of Migration? So-called “Anglo-Saxon” Burial Costume of the Fifth Century,’ Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 2018
• With Katherine Fliegel (Manchester), ‘Britain and the Transformation of the Roman World: Rethinking Rupture, Ideology, and Time,’ Theoretical Archaeology Group, Cardiff, December 2017
• ‘Comparing Britain and Northern Gaul: New Approaches to the Transformation Problem,’ Die Umgestaltung der römischen Welt–Neue Perspektiven, bekannte Probleme/The Transformation of the Roman World Reconsidered, Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, October 2017
• ‘Problematizing “Otherness” in Early Anglo-Saxon Archaeology,’ “Self and “Other”: The Construction and Perception of “Otherness” in Late Antiquity, Kiel, November 2016
• ‘The Saxons in the Roman Imaginary: Changing Perspectives in Late Antique Gaul,’ 66th Internationales Sachsensymposion, Leipzig, September 2015
• ‘The Ethnic Problem in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology: towards a Derridean deconstruction,’ International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2015

• 'The Northwestern Provinces in Crisis: some reflections on Julian's campaigns on the Rhine and the economic reorientation of Britain and Northern Gaul,' Antikeseminar der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, November 2019
• ‘A Comparative Approach to Lowland Britain and Northern Gaul,’ Antikekolloquium, DFG Kollegforschergruppe, “Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’, University of Tübingen, April 2019
• ‘The Archaeology of the Aduentus Saxonum: Rethinking Ethnicity in Britain during the so-called “Migration Age”,’ School Research Seminar, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, October 2018
• ‘Deconstructing Anglo-Saxon Archaeology: an introduction,’ Institute for Historical Research Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism, May 2018
• ‘Rethinking Ethnicity in Britain During the “Migration Period”,’  Mittelalter-Kolloquium, University of Tübingen, January 2018 ‘The End of Roman Rule and the Adventus Saxonum: rethinking ethnicity in post-Roman Britain,’ Roman Archaeology Research Seminar, University of Newcastle, February 2017