Public discourses on our past have intensifi ed over the past 30 years. Technological, political, interpersonal, social and cultural shifts affect what, how and why people and societies remember and forget. What is ‘memory’ under these conditions? How do we realize calls for ‘interdisciplinarity’ and also move beyond them towards a systematic set of conceptual, theoretical and methodological tools for the investigation of social and individual memory, of people and their groups? Welcome, then, to the launch issue of...