AWW21 What Just Happened? - Danielle Celermajer, Gabrielle Chan and Richard McGregor

It began with Australia ablaze and ended with a scramble to avoid
the latest cluster of the clusterf*** that was COVID-19. In
between were floods, flailing democracies, dodged
accountabilities, and a weird fugue that swallowed April – July.
It’s no wonder we emerged from 2020 wondering: “What just
happened?”. Sophie Cunningham’s Fire Flood Plague pondered just
that. She facilitates a conversation with contributors Richard
McGregor and Gabrielle Chan, joined by Danielle Celermajer, whose
essay collection Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future is
an an urgent elegy for looming loss.


Chaired by Sophie Cunningham