John Milios

Lectures

• Discussion on Moh. Yassine Essid's paper "Introduction to Bryson's Manuscript on Household Management", by John Milios. Ιnternational Conference on "Economic Thought and Economic Reality in Ancient Greece", Convened by Antony S. Courakis (Brasenose College and the John Hicks Foundation), Delphi September 22nd to 26th 1994

• Contemporary Capitalist Societies and Theory of Social Classes, Congress Marx International, Université Paris-X, 27-30.09.95

• The problem of capitalist development: A Marxist approach, SOAS, 13/3/02

• Surplus Value and Surplus Labour. (Marx’s monetary theory of value and his ambivalences towards Ricardian Political Economy), SOAS, 13/3/02

• Social and State Economy, presented at the European Social Forum in Florence, 6-9 November 2002

• Is there a need for more cooperation on fiscal policy in the eurozone?, Seminar The Stability and Growth Pact, organised by the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht (NL), 29-30 March 2004

• Marx’s Monetary Theory of Value and Capital, and Contemporary Capitalism, presented at the meeting on «The Contemporary Relevance of Marx», sponsored by Project K [http://projet-k.org] at the European Social Forum, Athens May 3, 2006

• "The Right to Academic Discussion. Who is "ineligible" and on whose Decision", Ninety-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Association of University Professors, Washington, DC, June 14, 2008

• "Griechenland und die Krise der Eurozone", Speech in Berlin, 1.3.2012, organized by TOP B3rlin: "Keine Hilfe unter Freunden - Der Euro in der europäischen Peripherie". Über den Charakter der gegenwärtigen Krise und geplante Interventionen diskutieren Michael Heinrich (Berlin), Jannis Milios (Athen) und TOP B3rlin. Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

• Spyros Lapatsioras, John Milios and Dimitris Sotiropoulos, "Beyond Capitalism. Strategies for a Good Society in the "Era of Financialization"", Summer University 2012 of the European Left, Portaria 20.07.2012

• "Neoliberal Europe in Crisis. SYRIZA's Alternative", A roundtable discussion on the theme: Leading Greece Back to Growth, Friday January 18th 2013, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

• John Milios, “The Capitalist Offensive and the Left. Can Euro-Exit be a Solution for the Working Majority?”, Seminar of the European Left on the Euro Crisis and the Left Alternative, Madrid, May 30, 2013

• John Milios and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, "Sovereign Debt Crisis in the Euro Area and the European Central Bank. Thoughts for a Progressive Alternative", Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) Brussels in cooperation with European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad), International Conference: Alternative Solutions to the Debt Crisis, Brussels, March 6-8, 2014

• "TOGETHER we can put an end to the problems of debt and austerity in Europe!", Opening by Yiannis Milios (EL Economic policy working group), April 10, 2014

• John Milios and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos,"Financial Capital Globalization as Capital Discipline and the Socialist Alternative", 5th World Social Forum: "Socialist Globalization, the Inevitable Outcome of Mankind & 20th Anniversary of World Socialism Research Center", organised by the World Socialism Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the China Center for Contemporary World Studies of International Department, Central Committee of CPC, Beijing, October 13 and 14, 2014

• John G. Milios, Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos and Spyros Lapatsioras, "The Crisis of the Euro Area and the Need for a Progressive Alternative", International Seminar "Relations among State, Market and Social Organizations in Different Development Models", organised by the China Center for Contemporary World Studies and the German Rosa Luxemburg Foundation China Office, Beijing, October 15 - 17, 2014

• "The character of the crisis: Seeking a way-out for the social majority", Blockupy Festival, Frankfurt/M., November 21, 2014

• "The Greek Public Debt: A Progressive Solution in a Broader European Framework". Presented at the Workshop Sovereign debt restructuring: legal frameworks and European challenges, organized by Bruegel, The Brussels-based Economic Think-Tank, 12th Feb 2015, Brussels. Also in Powerpoint

• "Is Austerity Winning the Argument on Euro-Zone Recovery? Can the Solutions to the Crisis also be Socially Just?", Hellenic Observatory and the Hellenic Bankers Association UK public discussion, Thursday 30 April 2015, 6.30-8 pm, London School of Economics

• Spyros Lapatsioras and John Milios, "Global finance as capital rule. The 'creative' role of the ECB", Workshop "Money, Debt and Finance: Towards a Political Economy of Financial Innovation", Organized by the Open Political Economy Group (OPEG) of The Open University in London, Friday 26 June, 2015

• "Marx’s Monetary Theory of Value, Fictitious Capital and Finance", Paper presented at the second international seminar on the 150th anniversary of The Capital (1867-2017): ‘The thought of Marx in the 21st century, and the Capital - Labor relations in The Capital’, organized by the Facultad de Ciencias y Educación Proyecto Académico de Investigacion y Extensión de Pedagogía of the Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, 3-6 November 2015, Bogota - Colombia

• "The working class and the middle classes: Allies in a common anti-neoliberal strategy?" Paper presented at the Seminar: 'Class, Class Theory, Class Struggle', organized by the Centre for Labour Studies (CRS), Zagreb, 16-17 October 2015

• "SYRIZA as a Symptom of the Euro-Crisis. De te fabula narratur", 18.11.2015, 07:15 p.m., Normative Orders, Cluster of Excellence at the Goethe University Frankfurt/M., Hörsaal Zentrum 5, Campus Westend

• "Crisis and austerity. Is there a chance for the welfare state?", Paper presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Nov. 19-20, 2015

• "SYRIZA: Vom „Umsturz“ zum Neoliberalismus 'mit humanem Gesicht'", Das andere Davos, Zürich 22/1/2016

• Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos & John Milios, “The exit connection: Europe’s new Polanyian moment”, paper presented at the Workshop A European Dimension to BREXIT, organized by the Open Political Economy Group (OPEG) and the Urban and Regional Economics Seminar Group (URESG), Open University in London, 13th June 2016

• "After Brexit and Donald Trump: Is Nationalism challenging Neoliberalism?", Presentation at the 3rd European Conference of Platypus in Vienna, February 18, 2017

• "Heterodox Economics vis-à-vis Crisis and Finance. Speculation of the ‘absentee rentier’ or Mechanism of disciplining social action?", International Conference in Political Economy: 10 Years after the Great Recession: Orthodox versus Heterodox Economics, Panteion University, 06-09 September 2018.

• John Milios, “European governance as a dangerous trade-off: More discipline in exchange for more instability", Institut für Europa-Studien, Kulturwissenschaftliches Europa-Kolloquium, Viadrina Universität, Frankfurt (Oder), 4/12/2018.

• “Socialist Planning” and Enterprise in the USSR, 1929-1989, Lecture at the International Conference Russian Revolution: Theoretical Approaches and Open Questions, University of Athens, Law School, April 12-14, 2019

• John Milios, “Value, Fictitious Capital and Finance. The timeless of Karl Marx’s Capital", Paper presented at the first Historical Materialism Athens Conference: “Rethinking Crisis, Resistance and Strategy”, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 2-5 May, 2019

• Spyros Lapatsioras, John Milios and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, "Capitalism, financial system and forms of exploitation", Paper presented at the first Historical Materialism Athens Conference: “Rethinking Crisis, Resistance and Strategy”, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 2-5 May, 2019

• John Milios, “Value Form and Abstract Labour in Marx. A critical review of Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s notion of ‘real abstraction’”, in: The Legacy of Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Two-Day Conference, May 13-14, The University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies

• John Milios, “The working class and the middle classes: Allies or foes?”, The Marxist Education Project, New York, August 20, 2022. (powerpoint presentation here)
• Jannis Milios, "Die Marxsche Wert-, und Kapitaltheorie und die kardinale Rolle des Finanzsystems", Kritische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler*innen, Freie Universität Berlin, 2/1/2023

• John Milios, "Nation, Imperialism, War. A critique of mainstream theories of imperialism", paper presented at the 2nd Historical Materialism Athens Conference, 20 - 23 April, 2023 [PPT]

• John Milios and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, “Revisiting the Classical Theories of Imperialism: From 'Underconsumption' in 'Global Capitalism' to the 'Imperialist Chain'”, Conference “Historical sociology, historical materialism and international relations”, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, November 2-3, 2012

• John Milios, ‘The “natural boundaries of nations” and imperialism’, 3rd Historical Materialism Athens Conference, 24-27 April, 2025

• John Milios (2026), "Value, Fictitious Capital and Finance", Lecture at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2