Feb 12, 2019 By: yunews
Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, associate professor of English, attended the that took place at the University College of Cork, Ireland, from Nov. 2-3, 2018.
The conference sought 鈥渢o build bridges between Public Health and Social Thought by addressing 鈥榮alutogenesis鈥 [a focus on factors that support human health and well-being rather than on factors that cause disease] and 鈥榮ense of coherence鈥 [why some people become ill under stress and others stay healthy].鈥 It featured 12 panels, five keynote addresses and two workshops.
Dr. Stewart was one of four members of a panel titled 鈥淭error, Bliss, Grace, and Primitivism,鈥 where she presented 鈥淢artin Luther鈥檚 Terror and Bliss,鈥 about the profound influence the thought of Martin Luther has had on German culture and cultural production. In particular, it focused on the presence in Lutheran theology of what psychiatrist Gregory Bateson termed the 鈥渄ouble bind,鈥 a situation of 鈥渄amned if you do and damned if you don鈥檛鈥 that often causes life-altering mental illness in individuals and that has often been represented, however indirectly, in German literature that concerns itself with the rise of Nazism in Germany. (See her other work in this regard.)
