Recent conferences and events at JYM
Motowns: Detroit – München und zurück. What's Music Got to Do with It?
Organized by the Rational Theater in Munich, the Junior Year in Munich, the Amerika Institut at LMU Munich and the Art Gallery Christoph Dürr.
America and the Musical Unconscious
A conference organized by the Junior Year in Munich and the Amerika-Institut of LMU Munich.
Revolutionary Leaves: The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski
A conference organized by the Junior Year in Munich and the Amerika-Institut of LMU Munich.
Dr. Charles Moseley
Fellow and tutor of Hughes Hall, director of studies in English at St. Edmund's College, speaks at JYM: Does Shakespeare Matter?
Professor Neil Donahue
Hofstra University. Erhabene Hysterie: Die Kunst und die Literatur des deutschen Expressionismus.
Transatlantic American Studies: Democratic Cultures Past & Present
Third Annual Summer Academy and Poetry reading at JYM. Sponsored by the Bavarian American Academy in cooperation with the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, LMU Munich, Wayne State University, the University of Warsaw, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Junior Year in Munich.
JYM Student Internship Fair
Held in partnership with the American-German Business Club of Munich.
20th Century African-American Voices: Art and Activism
A training seminar at JYM for 35 teachers of English.
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm
Meets with JYM students during a trade mission to Germany.
Götter Funken – the Gods gotta be Funky
Poetry slam and funk hip-hop.
Professor Roald Hoffman
John A. Newman, professor of physical science at Cornell University and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981, meets with JYM students on the occasion of the Munich premiere of his play, O2 Oxygen.
Global Competency Counts
Eric Nelson, U.S. Consul General to Munich, speaks to JYM students.
Fred Hoffman
Director of state relations, DaimlerChrysler Corporation and honorary consul of the Federal Republic of Germany for the State of Michigan, meets with JYM students.
Jürgen Zirnstein
President and chief financial officer of ThyssenKrupp Steel North America Inc. meets with JYM students.
Professor Dr. phil. Werner Jung
Professor of Germanistik Universität Duisburg-Essen speaks at JYM.
Matthew Rooney
U.S. Consul General to Munich speaks to JYM students.
Leonard Chang
Korean-American-born author of Fade to Clear (2004), reads at JYM.
International Theater Project
JYM hosts this unique project organized by the Residential College German Program at the University of Michigan.
Lauder Institute Summer Program
JYM regularly hosted the annual Summer Immersion Program in Germany which is part of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
Engineering Education in Germany
JYM hosts U.S. Deans of Engineering as part of a DAAD-sponsored information visit to Germany.
Theater Performance Workshop
JYM is host to this unique workshop organized by the Residential College German Program at the University of Michigan.
Poetry & The Blues
Detroit poet, M.L. Liebler, along with Detroit's legendary Blues artist and educator Robert B. Jones, perform at JYM.
Michigan Governor John Engler
Meets with JYM students during a trade mission to Germany.