DevChen Symposium

This week we are more than thrilled to welcome our first guest speaker to DevChen Symposium! Leadership is always a classic topic and learning leadership during the pandemic is a whole new scope. A lot to learn from and a lot to hear! Eddie is an International Certified Coach, an Affiliate Coach with the Institute of Coaching part of McLean/Harvard Medical School, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) coach with the International Coach Federation, and an official ICF Mentor Coach. Of the more than 37,000 ICF members in 143 countries, Eddie Turner was selected as a 2020 ICF Coach of the Week. Eddie is one of Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Coaches and is the host of the Keep Leading!® podcast, which earned Apple Podcasts coveted New & Noteworthy designation.

This week we also have another important topic - when and how to speak up! We consider a lot of things before we choose when to have a courageous conversation and how to express ourselves with the best interest. So let's talk about the mechanism this time!

Hey everyone！！ This week we will be talking about beauty standards and the social definition of beauty as well as cultural significance. TUNE IN!

Do you know how to tell your story? Do you know what form/state/technique that is required or essential to do great storytelling? And how storytelling could be beneficial to your entire life as well as leadership? Let's talk about that!!

This week's podcast is about FOOD! We will compare and discuss food and culture across cities, states and countries!

What are the days like in high school? Is it crazy-busy-study days? Or is it crazy-having-fun days? This week we will be a bit nostalgic and talk about the days in high school. Let’s start the memories right here.

Social cues and social interaction are the keys to communication. Under lots of circumstances, there are way more intricacies and details play into the context of communication. Knowing where the boundary is and when to cross it or not is super important. Let’s talk about boundaries and what are the boundaries in race, social interaction, relationships, and the professional world.

Hey! We hope everyone is having a wonderful great labor day holiday weekend! Week 8 episode is officially out! This week’s topic is Religion. My favorite way of understanding religion is, without question, the playfully serious and seriously playful exploration of religion in life. Because certain symbols are universally resonant across time and space, they find their way into both religious practice and creative expressions like poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, television scripts, stage plays, and sermons. Go ahead and listen to our episode.

Hello Everyone! This week we'll be discussing the impact of the French New Wave film movement and the career of cinematic auteur Jacques Demy. We hope you enjoy!

This week we will be talking about The Plague by Albert Camus. Not surprisingly, this book, which was written 70 years ago, demonstrates that human beings tend to have the same uneasiness, ugliness, problems, and reactions under extreme conditions. We will connect how people react to cholera years ago with how people react to COVID in the current time. The interpretation of the color, phrasing, and narrative methods of the book and the break-down of Albert Camus’s Absurdism theory lead to a thought-process - “there is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide...Judging whether life is or is not worth living, that is the fundamental question of philosophy.”

Hello Everyone! In this episode, we'll be talking about a centuries-old South Asian musical form named Qawwali. It is a very unique genre of music with few instruments and a lot of heart. Note: all music used in this episode is for educational purposes only

Hello Everyone! Here is Episode 4 "Time Management and Self-Reflection." By creating a schedule, we lay the foundation for how we want to build our lives whether it's for productivity or simply managing the daily minutiae. Do you feel this is a crazy time with crazy schedules? Or are you feeling concerned to restructure and redefine your life purpose? Tune in our episode and lets talk this through! Hope you enjoy!

Hey family! Episode 3 is coming soon!! Let’s tune in for today’s topic- Class, Societies, and their Portrayals in Films! Today we will be talking about a new film- The Platform, and its message to audiences; we will also tie in Animal Farm as well as class theories. For people who love theoretical implications in art forms, this is exactly what you are looking for. In this interesting, special time and age, thinking about this message - Oftentimes the oppressed try to prove their humanity to the oppressors. Perhaps, their strategy is to prove the inhumanity of the oppressors.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, here is the DevChen Symposium Episode 2! Thank you, everyone, for listening to our first episode, and we received lots of encouragement, compliments as well as feedback. We love to continue to produce better and more interesting content for you every Friday! Today’s topic is Cultural Identities and Articulations Through Dance. We will bring you guys 6 different kinds of music/dance genres - Qawwali, Hip Hop, Mbalax, Vogue, Celtic Folk Music, and Dancehall. Do you want to know more about the cultural and origin of those genres? Do you want to know more about how each music genre influences both Yif and Alex? Commercial vs underground? Cultural vs historical? Are you ready to listen to 6 clips of music? Today’s discussion is heated! Stay tuned! PS: Music in this episode is only for educational purposes.

Hey Guys! This is the first episode of DevChen Symposium!! WoooW!! Finally, our Podcast is officially launched and we are more than excited to meet you here :) On this first episode, we will be discussing a very relevant topic - Graduation in Quarantine. What is the graduation you dreamed of and what’s the reality? How did you celebrate your graduation during the quarantine? What do you value most in your undergraduate study and how do you maintain a positive attitude during this time? We are here to kick off this bittersweet conversation, and the DevChen Symposium will be your best friend during this special time.