Present past. Urban Palimpsests and the politics of memory

Presents pasts: media, politics, amnesia; Monumental seduction: Christo in Berlin; The voids of Berlin; After teh war: berlin as palimpset; Fer of mice: the Times Square Redevelopment; Memory sites in an expanded field: the Memory Park in Buenos Aires; Doris salcedo´s memory sculpture: Unland: the Orphans tunic; Of mice and mimesis: Readinf Spiegelman with Adorno; Rewritings and new beginnins: W.G. Sebald andf the litereture on the air wair; Twin memories: afterimages of Nine/Eleven