International Storytelling: A Reves Homecoming Panel
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Reves Center for International Studies, Reves Room
The Reves Center for International Studies presents a Homecoming panel of gifted and versatile international storytellers that will share about their experiences in the arts. The panel will discuss a wide range of topics, from advising on network television shows to performing and exhibiting art abroad.
- Rodney Faraon - Chief Creative Officer, Crumpton Global, Founding Director, The Walt Disney Company’s Global Intelligence Organization & Member of the Reves International Advisory Board
Rodney Faraon is a Partner at Crumpton Group, an international business strategy firm based in Washington DC. From 2005-08, Mr. Faraon was the founding Director of The Walt Disney Company’s Global Intelligence practice, which assessed political risk and warned of threats to the Company’s assets, employees, guests, and reputation. Before Disney, Mr. Faraon served for 15 years as a leader and senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, including a stint on the President’s Daily Briefing team, a role for which he was awarded the Director’s Medal. After 9/11, Mr. Faraon was posted to a CIA Station overseas, where he created a counterterrorism program and managed relationships with foreign intelligence. Mr. Faraon is a contributing author to the book Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks: Rediscovering US Counterintelligence (2009). He has produced or consulted on feature films and television shows, including STATE OF AFFAIRS (NBC), THE CROSSING (ABC), HOMELAND (Showtime), BLACKHAT (Legendary) and THE BILLION DOLLAR SPY (Walden Studios, forthcoming). He serves on the Board of Directors for Project 2049, a think tank on Asia security issues. Mr. Faraon earned a B.S.F.S magna cum laude from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. - Brian Kreydatus - Artist & W&M Professor of Art
Brian Kreydatus received his BFA from Syracuse University and his MFA from University of Pennsylvania. Professor Kreydatus’ paintings, prints, and drawings focus on the figure or, on occasion, a space permeated with the figure’s heavy absence. He states, “my work is about grappling with the physicality and vulnerability of the human body and allusions to the varied life experiences and limitations that are inherent in the human condition. In my purely observational works, I want to make the familiar unfamiliar through the intense scrutiny of looking. I want my narrative works to have the heightened intensity of a fever dream”. Professor Kreydatus has exhibited his work extensively in the US and abroad with solo exhibitions in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington DC and group exhibitions in New York, Australia, England, China, France, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Serbia, and Sweden. - Silvia Tandeciarz - Author, Poet, Vice-Dean for Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Studies & Chancellor Professor of Hispanic Studies
Silvia Tandeciarz earned her M.A. in English from Stanford University (1988) and her Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (1995). She has been at William & Mary since 1999. A specialist in Latin American Cultural Studies criticism, she is particularly interested in Southern Cone cultural production post-dictatorship. She has published widely on contemporary visual, spatial, and performative cultural initiatives in Argentina that serve to process and transmit traumatic memories of the last dictatorship. Her monograph on this topic, Citizens of Memory: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina was published in 2017 by Bucknell University Press. A translator and also a poet, she is currently working on an English-language translation from Spanish and Taino of Juana Goergen's collection of poetry, Mar en los huesos (2017).
The panel will be moderated by Teresa Longo - Associate Provost for International Affairs & Executive Director of the Reves Center.
The event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.