Dr. José Antonio Serratos Hernández is Senior Researcher at the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) since 2008 and Academic Advisor at the UACM College of Humanities and Science. He has developed research in biotechnology, and biochemistry on the diversity and agroecology of maize/corn germplasm and other botanical species, as well as in conservation, use and biosafety projects of native maize in the conservation area of Mexico City.

He has experience in biosafety issues and has developed strategies, public policies, and legal instruments for the conservation of native maize. He founded a Program for the conservation of the diversity of the native corn of Mexico City.
Currently, Dr. Serratos is carrying out research on anthropological and ethnobotanical aspects of maize culture at the Ethnology and Social Studies Directorate of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Recently, he has collaborated with the Iberoamerican University and Autonomous University of Yucatan in the study of Milpa agrosystem and nutrition.
José Antonio Serratos is a founding member of the Union of Scientists Committed to Society (UCCS, Unión de Científicos Comprometidos con la Sociedad) and is currently its vice-president.

José Antonio Serratos Hernández participe au Programme professeurs invités de l’EHESS. Il est invité par Nicolas Ellison, (Mondes Américains/CERMA).
 

Conférences

 

1. Methodological reflections on the ‘co-production’ of knowledge : transgene detection workshops co-organized with indigenous farmers' organizations in Mexico.

Dans le cadre du séminaire "Appréhension de l'environnement et modes de connaissances de la nature", de Nicolas Ellison (Mondes Américains/ CERMA).

• Jeudi 16 mars 2023 de 12h30 à 14h30 

Centre des Colloques, Campus Condorcet, Salle 3.07
Place du Front populaire, Aubervilliers

 

2. Maize from a biotechnology perspective. For a social pedagogy of the agricultural, economic and socio-cultural stakes around transgenesis.

Dans le cadre du séminaire "Appréhension de l'environnement et modes de connaissances de la nature", de Nicolas Ellison (Mondes Américains/ CERMA).

• Vendredi 17 mars 2023 de 10h à 12h 


Centre des Colloques, Campus Condorcet, Salle 3.07
Place du Front populaire, Aubervilliers
 

3. Dynamics of transgene dissemination in Mexico : how to study them and what are the political stakes in the choice of methods.

Dans le cadre du séminaire “Biodiversité en mouvement”, coordonné par Gaëlle Ronsin et Germain Meulemans.

• Jeudi 23 mars 2023 de 14h à 16h

École Normale Supérieure, Salle des Actes
45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris

 

 4. El decreto presidencial sobre prohibición del glifosato y del maíz transgénico en México: alcances simbólicos y agro-ecológicos.

• Vendredi 24 mars 2023 de 14h à 16h, (conférence en espagnol)

Dans le cadre du séminaire du CREDA “Transitions écologiques dans les Amériques”.

Bâtiment de Recherche Sud, Salle 5.023
Campus Condorcet, 5 Cours des Humanités, Aubervilliers
 

Les trois premières conférences seront en anglais et celle du 24 mars en espagnol.

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