Dario azzellini education Ph. D. (Sociology)

“Economic crisis and workplace takeovers in Latin America and Europe for production under self-management.“ Workshop. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, US, January 26.

2017 “The Consequences of 1968 for the Left and on the Society of West Germany.“ GERST 2020, Literary Texts and Context, Douglas McBride, German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US, November 29.

“Sustainability of Workplace Takeovers and Workers’ Self-Management in the Recession and Post-Recession.” ILR 6616: Globalization and Human Resource Strategy, Rosemary Batt, ILR School, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US, November 14.

“German HipHop, Migrant Communities, Black Germans and its Influence on Youth Slang.” GERM 203 - Intermediate German I, Anna Pfeifer, German Studies, Binghamton University, NY, US, November 14.

“German HipHop, Migrant Communities, Black Germans and its Influence on Youth Slang.” GERM 203 - Intermediate German I, German Studies, Carl Gelderloos, Binghamton University, NY, US, November 14.

“Staat und Ökonomie im Übergang: Bilanz und Perspektiven der Rätediskussion im 20. Jahrhundert,” Perspektiven auf den Roten Oktober. Einhundert Jahre Russische Revolution 1917. Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, Berlin, Germany, November 3-5.

“Workplace Takeovers for Self-Management in Europe: Comparative Case Studies in France, Greece, and Italy,” ILR School & ICL, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 25.

“From Economic Crisis to Economic Democracy: Lessons and Strategies from the Black Community,” with Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Roger Green and Naceo Giles, Murphy Institute, CUNY, NYC, February 24.

2016 “Labour as a Commons: The Example of Worker-Recuperated Companies,” Saint Mary's University, International Development Studies Visiting Speakers Program, Halifax, Canada, September 16.

“Democracy and the Commons: How Communities Around the World Are Taking Control of their Work, their Neighbourhoods and their Lives,” Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, September 15.

2015 “Building the Left from Below: Workers’ Recuperated Companies,” Konferencija Vratimo socijalizam u igru: elementi za promišljanje socijalističke alternative, Center for Political Emancipation (CPE), Belgrade, Serbia, December 10.

“Crisis and Workers' Control,“ Athens Biennale 2015–2017 Omonoia, International Summit at the National Theatre of Greece, Athens November 18-19.

“Internationalismus heute - Chancen und Perspektiven,” Konferenz Internationalismus im 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin, Germany, October 23.

“Venezuela and the Latin American Context: Revolutionary Populism?,” Thessaloniki University, Greece, April 2.

“Keine Position beziehen ist keine Kunst,” Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, March 3.

“ERT y control obrero en Venezuela y Europa,” Hotel Bauen, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, February 11.

2014 “Past and present of factory recuperations and workers’ control,” Productive Cooperation in Urban Space, Sapienza University Rome, Italy, December 4.

“Societies against Austerity: Movements and Protest,” with Marina Sitrin and Fabienne Décieux, Learning from the South: Societies under and against austerity, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, November 19.

“They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy,” with Marina Sitrin, York University, Toronto, Canada, September 29.

“The global dimension of recent social movements,” with Marina Sitrin, Haverford College, Haverford, USA, September 25.

“Popular Participation, From Occupy to Latin America and Beyond,” with Marina Sitrin, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, September 25.

“Occupy! They Can’t Represent Us! Democracy in a Global Context,” Marina Sitrin, Susana Draper and Vicente Rubio, Democracy Lab, Gallatin School, NYU, NYC, US, September 22.

“New Global Movements for Real Democracy,” Montclair State University, Montclair, USA, September 17.

“They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy,” with Marina Sitrin and Gary Wilder, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, USA, September 16.

“Rethinking Democracy and Representation: Occupy and Beyond”, with Marina Sitrin, Michael Hardt and Liz Mason Deese, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, September 11.

“They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy,” with Marina Sitrin, Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, NC, USA, September 9.

“They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy,” with Marina Sitrin, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, September 8.

“Futbolistas - Fußball und Lateinamerika: Hoffnungen, Helden, Politik und Kommerz,“ Österreichisches Lateinamerika-Institut, Vienna, Austria, May 7.

“They Can’t Represent Us! – New Global Movements and Democracy,” CEU - Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, March 26.

“Comuna Under Construction,” New College of Florida, Sarasota, USA, February 21.

“They Can’t Represent Us! – New Global Movements and Democracy,” New College of Florida, Sarasota, USA, February 14.

2013 “Venezuela ohne Chávez: Situation und Perspektiven der bolivarischen Revolution“, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, December 11.

“Aktivismus gegen die Krise und für das Gemeinwohl: Zukunftsprojekte aus Südeuropa,” Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany, October 24.

“Venezuela ohne Chávez - Situation und Perspektiven der bolivarischen Revolution,“ Bildungswerk der Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, July 30.

“Die neuen globalen Bewegungen von Occupy bis Griechenland: Gemeinsamkeiten und Verbindungen zu lateinamerikanischen Bewegungen der vergangenen 20 Jahre,“ Bildungswerk der Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, July 2.

“Strategies for social change: Movements with, within, against and/or beyond the state?” CUNY, Graduate Center, NYC, USA, May 2.

“Common features and differences in the new global movements,” On Protest: A Research Symposium. Session II – Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Protest, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, April 13-14.

“Situation and perspectives of recovered factories in Venezuela,” Seminar II "Solidarity Economy North and South: energy, livelihoods and the transition to a low carbon economy postcapitalist. Vision of social organizations," Cultural Center of Cooperation "Floreal Gorini", Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 26-28.

“State public policies and ESS in Venezuela,” Seminar II "Solidarity Economy North and South: energy, livelihoods and the transition to a low carbon economy postcapitalist. Vision of social organizations," Cultural Center of Cooperation "Floreal Gorini", Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 26-28.

“Selbstverwaltung und partizipatorische Ökonomie,” opening talk “Konferenz Krise und reale Utopien 2.0,“ Medienkulturhaus Wels, Wels, Austria, March 25.

“Venezuela and the regional initiatives from ALBA to UNASUR,” “What Next, Venezuela? A Roundtable Discussion in Real Time,” New York University, NYC, USA, March 13.

2012 “America Latina y la privatización de la guerra,” Conferencia Intercontinental “Paz, desarme y alternativas sociales ante la OTAN Global”, Palacio del Congreso Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 13-14.

“Horizontalismo: Lenguajes de ocupación en el mundo,” with Marina Sitrin, Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios CESU, University Mayor San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia, August 13.

“Venezuela's social transformation and growing class struggle,” Institute for Sociology, University Jena, Jena, Germany, July 3.

“Social Movements & Autonomy in Venezuela and Argentina: In, Against and Beyond the State,” with Marina Sitrin, CUNY, Graduate Center, NYC, USA, May 17.

“Social Movements and the State in Venezuela,” New York University, Gallatin School, NYC, USA, March 21.

“Solidarity economy, local self-administration and participatory democracy in Venezuela,” The Solidarity Economy in Latin America, Seminar, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, March 12-16.

2011 “Worker Control from the Commune to the Present,” CUNY, Graduate Center, NYC, USA. October 12.

“Pueblo, Poder y Cultura Política: Del Estado burgués al Estado Comunal,” Instituto de Altos Estudios Diplomáticos Pedro Gual de la Cancillería de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, September 27.

“Venezuela: Mit Bolívar zum Sozialismus?,” Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany, June 1.

“El Proceso comunitarista en Venezuela,” School of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain, May 13.

“Modelos para el socialismo del siglo XX, El proceso comunitarista en Venezuela”, School of Social Sciences and Communication, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain, May 12.

“El Proceso comunitarista en Venezuela,” School of Sarriko for Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Basque Country, sede Bilbao, Spain, May 11.

“Consejos Comunales, Control Obrero y Estado Comunal,” Venezuelan Consulate of Chicago, USA, March 24.

“Revolution as Process: The confluence of ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ approaches in Bolivarian Venezuela,” Venezuelan Consulate of New York, NYC, USA, March 22.

“Comuna en Construcción,” Fundación Centro de Estudios Estratégicos Comunales de Valencia (CEECOVAL), Teatro Municipal de Valencia, Valencia, Venezuela, March 1.

“Comuna en Construcción,” Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez, sede Palo Verde, Caracas, Venezuela, February 17.

“Comuna en Construcción”, Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez, sede El Valle, Caracas, Venezuela, February 10.

“Contexto político y social colombiano. Geopolítica y geoeconomía del conflicto,” diplomado Crímenes de lesa humanidad y de guerra: contexto legal, nacional e internacional y ciencias auxiliares de la justicia, Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, February 4-5.

“El negocio de la guerra e intereses geoestratégicos que motivan las confrontaciones,” Auditorio de Confiar, Medellin, Colombia, February 3.

2010 “Rätebewegung, Parlamente und Demokratie in Venezuela,” Denknovember, Denknetz, Zurich, Switzerland, November 20.

“Los Consejos Comunales como institución del poder constituyente,” Pensar la Comunidad desde la Comunidad. Participación, poder popular y la construcción del socialismo, Celarg, Caracas, Venezuela, September 17.

“Comuna en construcción,” Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo Económico y Social (Cedes), Facultad de Economía, BUAP, Puebla, Mexico, May 15

“Research, Participation and Intervention,” with Oliver Ressler, The Geopolitical Turn: Art and the Context of Globalisation, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, GB, May 8.

“Popular Power and the Socialist Model: A Look at Venezuela's Path to Socialism,“ with Camila Piñeiro Harnecker, Venezuelan General Consulate, NYC, USA, March 17.

Conference papers (selected)

2018 “The transformation of work and the prospects of labour law.” Panel participation, King’s Transnational Law Summit, King’s College London, London, UK, April 11.

“La comuna: construcción socialista más allá del estado, el gobierno y lo privado.” Marx 1818-2018. A Critique of Political Economy. Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Basque Country, Spanish State, March 1-3.

2017 “Contemporary Crisis, Recuperated Workplaces and Self-Management,” Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (ECWD), Fordham University Lincoln Center, NYC, NY, USA, June 11.

“Cooperatives - path to a different society or alternative business model? Chances and risks of workers' self-management in capitalism,” Left Forum 2017, John Jay College, NYC, NY, USA, June 4

2016 “Escenarios actuales de los gobiernos progresistas en América Latina, ¿fin de ciclo?,” Coloquio internacional, Benemérita universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades "Alfonso Vélez Pliego," Puebla, México, November 7-8.

“European Intellectuals and Their Others,” Modern Language Association International Symposium, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany, June 24.

“Enterprise recuperations, networks and class recomposition,” How Class Works, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA, June 10.

“The International Encounters of the Workers’ Economy and workerscontrol.net: Workers, researchers and activists networking globally,” XXXIV. International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), NYC, USA, May 28.

2015 “Comunas en Venezuela: construyendo la utopía,” International Conference “Utopian Imaginaries: Past, Present and Future”, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, October 1

“Lokale Selbstverwaltung in Venezuela,” Netzwerk Mieten & Wohnen – Konferenz 2015, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, September 25.

2014 Panel “Post-Chávez Venezuela: New Directions under the Presidency of Nicolás Maduro?,” with Clara Irazabal, Steve Ellner, George Ciccariello-Maher, Naomi Schiller and Arnold August, Left Forum 2014, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, NYC, USA, May 31.

“Workers’ control and workers’ participation – discourses and contradictions in Venezuela,” XXXII. International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, USA, May 24.

“The Venezuelan movement for workers control and growing struggles in state companies,” International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), King’s College, London, UK, April 9.

2013 “Overcoming marginalization through self-administration: A case study of the Venezuelan Consejos Comunales,” RC21 Conference 2013 “Resourceful cities,” ISA conference, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, August 30-31.

Panel “Venezuela Beyond Chávez II: The Grassroots Perspective”, with Alejandro Velasco, Julio Rodriguez, T.M. Scruggs, Sujatha Fernandes, Left Forum 2013, Pace University, NYC, USA, June 7–9.

Roundtable: The “New” Movements: “We won't pay for your crisis - we are your crisis”, with Marina Sitrin and Luis Moreno-Caballud, LAWCHA (Labor and Working-Class History Association) National Conference, CUNY, NYC, USA, June 6-8.

“Perspectives of the Bolivarian Revolution without Chávez,” panel “Latin American Social Movements 14 Years Later: Experiences and Perspectives since 1998,” Historical Materialism Conference New York, New York University, NYC, USA, April 26–28.

“Die Konstruktion eines neuen Machtkonzepts: Wie funktioniert die „Partizipative Demokratie“ gemäß der Verfassung von 1999?“ International Conference: Venezuela nach Hugo Chávez, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, April 20–21.

2012 “Soziale Bewegungen als gesellschaftsverändernde Kraft und das Primat der konstituierenden Macht,” Research Transformation – Transforming Research. Emanzipatorische Perspektiven auf Protest, Widerstand und Subjekte. International Conference, Berlin, Germany, November 17–18.

“Communal councils, Communes and Communal Cities: Non-representative self-administration in Venezuela,” New Forms of Political Participation in Latin America, Building Dialogues in the Americas, 54 International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria, July 15–20.

“Venezuela: Del Estado petrolero burgués al Estado Comunal,” Movimientos sociales y transformaciones del Estado y de la democracia, Building Dialogues in the Americas, 54 International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria, July 15–20.

“Grundzüge der Problematik der Rohstoffförderung in Lateinamerika aus materialistischer Sicht.” 28. annual conference of LAF Austria (Austrian Latin Americanist Association), Strobl, Austria, June 2.

“The Consejos Comunales in Venezuela: non-representative local self-administration and the community as class identification.” XXX. International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, USA, May 23-26.

2011 “Von der repressiven Formaldemokratie zur partizipativen und protagonistischen Demokratie in Venezuela,” Demokratie! Welche Demokratie? Postdemokratie kritisch hinterfragt, annual conference of the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of Economy, Wissensturm, Linz, Austria, December 2.

“Krise und reale Utopien. Alternativen zur gegenwärtigen Wirtschaftsordnung,” Krise und reale Utopien: ein Ausblick, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria, November 17. (respondent)

“The Democratic Peace Myth: From Hiroshima to Baghdad,“ Andrew Fiala, The Changing Face of War, Wiley-Blackwell Exchanges online conference, November 14-20. (respondent)

“Experiences in Latin America,” Societal Transformation and Political Steering, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, June 17-19. (respondent)

“Popular Power Inside, Outside, With and Against the State: The Contradictory Path of the Bolivarian Process in Venezuela,” Eighth Historical Materialism Annual Conference, University of London, GB, November 10-13.

“Critiques and Contradictions Inside the Bolivarian Process: The Example of the Basic Industries and Workersʼ Control,” Eighth Historical Materialism Annual Conference, University of London, GB, November 10-13.

“Transformation und Klassenkämpfe in Venezuela,“ Fit für den Markt oder den Markt überwinden? Widersprüche von Genossenschaften & Belegschaftsbetrieben und ihre Bearbeitung, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany, November 4-5.

“Poder constituyente y Estado Comunal,” Investigación social y experiencia comunitaria, Casa de Rómulo Gallegos (Celarg), Caracas, Venezuela, September 6-7.

“Experiences in Latin America,” Societal Transformation and Political Steering, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, June 17-19.

“Die Paramilitarisierung Venezuelas,” 27. Annual conference of the Austrian Latin American Studies, Strobl, Austria, May 27-29.

“Revolution as Process: The Permanency of Constituent Power and the Resignification of the State,” 47th SLAS (Society for Latin American Studies) Annual Conference, University of St. Andrews, GB, April 8-10.

“Workers Control and co-management in Venezeuela,” Worker Control and Factory Occupations, Global South and North,” Left Forum 2011, Pace University, NYC, USA, March 18-20.

2010 “Venezuela: Gesellschaftliche Transformation im Spannungsfeld von Staat und Bewegungen,” Soziale Bewegungen und Transformationen in Lateinamerika, 5. Conference of German South America and Caribbean Researcher, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, September 29 – October 1.

“Workersʼ Control and Property in the Venezuelan Transition,” Workers Self-Management and Alternative Work Organisation, Seventh Historical Materialism Annual Conference, University of London, GB, November 11-14.

“Revolution as Process,” The Bolivarian Revolution: Practices, Policies, Processes – From Local to Regional and Global, 46th SLAS (Society for Latin American Studies) Annual Conference, University of Bristol, GB, April 9-10.

“From Co-Management to Workers Control in Venezuela,” Alternative Labor Organizations: Worker Councils and Rank-and-File Control, Left Forum 2010, Pace University, NYC, USA, March 19.-21.

“The Red Brigades in Italy,” Urban Guerrilla Movements, Europe and Latin America, Left Forum 2010, Pace University, NYC, USA, March 19.-21.

“From co-management to factory councils: reorganizing property and administration of means of production in Venezuela,” 28th Annual International Labour Process Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA, March 15-16.

Conferences, conference panels and workshops - organized (selected)