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The lecture will focus on current debates and recent issues of urban memory in the city of Barcelona. These span from the memory of the self-built city and its struggles for dignified housing, the memory of the political repression during the Franco era in its diverse layers as well as a current debate on the colonial past of the city and a needed contestation of certain monuments related to it. It will discuss most recent commemorative acts, and, at the same time, present its protagonists both from civic activism and from the local authority's side, such as the Council for Democratic Memory.