Research Associate Marie Favereau spoke at the V International Forum of the Golden Horde Studies organized by the Sh. Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan (Tatarstan Academy of Sciences), held in Kazan on 15^th-18^th March. More than a hundred scholars from 18 countries were invited to discuss their work on the history of the Golden Horde and the Tatar Khanates.

Dr Favereau took part in a roundtable session organized by Director Rafail Khakimov on “the Golden Horde and the Silk Road” with leading experts Michel Balard, Mark Kramarovsky, Uli Schamilogu, and Daniel Waugh. Dr Favereau presented her research results on the Pax Mongolica. Her paper entitled “Trade, Peace and Diplomacy: Economic Integration in Eurasia under the Golden Horde” dealt with the new forms of long-distance trade the Mongols had created to stimulate and control the economic exchanges in their empire and beyond its frontiers, especially with the Mamluks, the Byzantines, the Venetians, and the Genoese.