{"id":612,"date":"2016-05-17T07:18:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T14:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/?page_id=612"},"modified":"2016-05-23T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:06:47","slug":"brianna-webb-to-present-at-world-history-conference-belgium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/may-2016-homepage\/scholarships-and-awards\/brianna-webb-to-present-at-world-history-conference-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Brianna Webb to present at World History Conference, Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"builder-section-1464037564155\" class=\"row single h1-header gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<h1>Graduate News<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1463494622633\" class=\"row single gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<header>\n<h2>Brianna Webb to present at 25th annual World History Association conference in Ghent, Belgium<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2016\/03\/Brianna-Webb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-411 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2016\/03\/Brianna-Webb-396x517.jpg\" alt=\"Brianna-Webb\" width=\"114\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2016\/03\/Brianna-Webb-396x517.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2016\/03\/Brianna-Webb-768x1003.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2016\/03\/Brianna-Webb-792x1035.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3205\/2016\/03\/Brianna-Webb.jpg 871w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><\/a>Pullman MA student Brianna Webb will present her paper \u201cLayers of Memory: K\u00e4the Kollwtiz and Die Eltern\u201d at 25th annual World History Association conference in Ghent, Belgium. Her research examines the role of war memorials through a study of K\u00e4the Kollwitz\u2019s sculpture Die Eltern (\u201cThe Grieving Parents\u201d) and challenges a popular perception that memorials suggest a single narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Brianna\u00a0explores the transformation by which private or national war memorials represent suffering and grief on a global scale, while possessing the potential to elicit various narratives based on one\u2019s degree of intimacy to an event.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGrieving Parents\u201d originally held an exclusive significance for Kollwitz, and she utilized the sculpture for personal commemoration for her son, Peter, who died in Flanders on October 22, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Once she dedicated her artwork to the Vladslo war cemetery in 1932 (where Peter is buried), her personal memory transcended into a public tribute for the German families who were afflicted by the war, and like Kollwitz, had a son buried in the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>After World War II, significant restoration of German war cemeteries took place, leaving the \u201cGrieving Parents\u201d preserved as an international representation of grief and suffering intrinsic of war. The conference will take place July 2-5, 2016, at Ghent University.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate News Brianna Webb to present at 25th annual World History Association conference in Ghent, Belgium Pullman MA student Brianna Webb will present her paper \u201cLayers of Memory: K\u00e4the Kollwtiz and Die Eltern\u201d at 25th annual World History Association conference in Ghent, Belgium. 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