{"id":2282,"date":"2026-03-16T10:48:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:56:41","slug":"cerees-lecture-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/2026\/03\/16\/cerees-lecture-7\/","title":{"rendered":"CEREES Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cerberus in the South Caucasus: <\/span>The Politics of Producing Knowledge about a Fractured Region<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When: Thursday 16 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time: 18:00-20:00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where: People’s Palace, PP1 Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The metaphor that is so often reached for to evoke the South Caucasus is the crossroads. Yet if understandings of the South Caucasus as a crossroads or contact area have long been accepted by researchers of geopolitics or anthropology, only recently has a discussion of the region\u2019s positioning in the global economy of knowledge mainstreamed into a vivid polemic over what we know about the South Caucasus, why we know it, and who determines the answers to these questions. This talk will discuss the epistemological traditions (‘Cerberus’ serving as a metaphor for the three epistemological traditions) <\/span>shaping the production of knowledge about the South Caucasus since the region regained independence in 1991. It will explore the impacts of different traditions \u2013 universalism, localism and the policy knowledge wielded by practitioners \u2013 on the constitution of the South Caucasus as an epistemically, as well as geopolitically and culturally, fractured subject.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Speaker:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Laurence Broers<\/span><\/strong> is an associate fellow at the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0with three decades of experience as a researcher of conflicts in the South Caucasus and practitioner of peacebuilding initiatives in the region. Alongside working in a variety of roles with the peacebuilding NGO Conciliation Resources, he has edited three volumes on regional history and politics and published numerous journal articles on the South Caucasus, as well as extensive policy and current affairs analysis. He is also the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the academic journal <\/span>Caucasus Survey<\/span>. He is currently completing a second edition of his monograph, <\/span>Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalr<\/em>y<\/span> (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). <\/span>Laurence studied for a BA in Russian and Spanish at Queen Mary University of London, where he met Prof. Donald Rayfield<\/a> (Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian, QMUL), who encouraged him to learn Georgian. He then worked with Donald Rayfield on the Georgian-English dictionary.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Cerberus in the South Caucasus: The Politics of Producing Knowledge about a Fractured Region Laurence Broers (Chatham House)   When: Thursday 16 April Time: 18:00-20:00 Where: People’s Palace, PP1 Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road   Book tickets here   \u00a0 About the Lecture: The metaphor that is so often reached […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}