The significance of memory in the present / Danielle Drozdzewski, Sarah De Nardi, Emma Waterton -- Part I. Placing memory in public -- Encountering memory in the everyday city / Danielle Drozdzewski -- Personal reflections on formal Second World War memorials in everyday spaces in Singapore / Hamzah Muzaini -- Multiple and contested geographies of memory: remembering the 1989 Romanian Revolution / Duncan Light and Craig Young -- Wrecks to relics Sha'ar Hagai, Israel: battle remains and the formation of a battlescape / Moaz Azaryahu -- Part II. Narrative memorial practices: storytelling and materiality -- Who were the enemies? The spatial practices of belonging and exclusion in Second World War Italy / Sarah De Nardi -- Sound memory: a critical concept for researching past wartime experiences / Carolyn Birdsall -- Heralding Jericho: narratives of remembrance, reclamation and Republican identity in Belfast, Northern Ireland / Lia Dong Shimada -- In the shadow of centenaries: Irish artists go to war 1914-1918 / Nuala C. Johnson -- Part III. Commemorative rituals of remembering in place -- Embodied memory at the Australian War Memorial / Jason Dittmer and Emma Waterton -- Affective atmospheres / Shanti Sumartojo and Quentin Stevens -- Beyond sentimentality and glorification: using a history of emotions to deal with the horror of war / Andrea Witcomb -- Witnessing and affect: altering, imagining and making new spaces to remember the Great War in modern Britain / Ross Wilson -- Places of memory and mourning in Nazi Germany / Joshua Hagen