Saturday, October 15, 2:30 pm–4:30 pm
Director 5
Chair: Veronica Schanoes (Queens College, City University of New York)
2:30 pm
Armenian Folktales in Russian Publications of the 19th Century
Gohar Melikyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of Armenia)
2:45 pm
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown: The Case for the Use of Tales in Socio-historical Research
Marc Eliany (, retired)
3:00 pm
Presenting a Reimagined Analytical Model for Engaging with a Reimagined Literary Fairy Tale
Maggie Mercil (Utah State University)
3:30 pm
“I Know You Killed My Mother”: The Good Stepmother and the Serial Killer in Disney’s Cruella (2021)
Claudia Schwabe (Utah State University)
4:00 pm
Sorcery, Soil, and the Jew in The Blue Fairy Book’s “The Bronze Ring”
Veronica Schanoes (Queens College, City University of New York)
Assembled Panel