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As a result of their homonymous successful podcast, Miller and Lemmy reflect and problematise the biographies of infamously renowned queer (mostly cis male gays) of history. Outstandingly, many of them with military or statesman careers connected to war efforts such as Frederick the Great, Lawrence of Arabia or the Emperor Hadrian. Others, with questionable pathways in security, fascism or far right politics as J. Edgar Hoover, Yukio Mishima, or Ronnie Kray.
This presentation will shed light and questions regarding how the construction of masculinities, power, and the invention of homosexuality as a political project intersect in complicated ways for war and violence.
Ben Miller biography
Ben Miller is a writer and researcher. He is a Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History at the Freie Universität Berlin, has taught on queer history, literature, and visual cultures at the Humboldt Universität and The New Centre for Research & Practice, and has collaborated with artists including Elijah Burgher and AA Bronson. A regular contributor to the Arts and Leisure pages of The New York Times, Ben’s essays, criticism, and fiction have been additionally published in Literary Hub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacobin Magazine, SAND, Apogee Journal, and Tin House. Since 2018, Ben has been a member of the board of the Schwules Museum, one of the world’s largest independent institutions dedicated to archiving and exhibiting queer histories and visual cultures.
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