TIME: 12 PM ET/7 PM SAST| PLATFORM: Zoom | REGISTER: bit.ly/3lXVbWQ

Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a special presentation featuring Dr. Kerry Whigham. In this presentation, Dr. Whigham shares three examples of memory encroachments: the Stolpersteine of Europe; the baldosas por la memoria of Buenos Aires; and the site markers of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail in the United States. Memory encroachments are sites of memory whose central goal is to intrude or intervene upon the daily life of passersby. Unlike traditional forms of memorialisation, which utilise scale or recognisable architectural forms to declare themselves publicly, memory encroachments do not call attention to themselves so obviously, nor do they serve as sites of destination. Rather, in most cases, they are sites that one happens upon on the way to other things not related to memory.