In this conversation, Dr. Catherine Quinlan discusses the importance of heritage and cultural representation, particularly focusing on African rock art and its connection to heritage, identity, and science. She emphasizes the need for cultural representation in education and shares insights on how to implement African rock art analysis in the classroom. The conversation highlights the significance of understanding and appreciating Black heritage and the contributions of indigenous cultures to art and science. This conversation occasionally includes a presenter and panelist who were a part of the portions of the conversation. This conversation was initially presented as an interactive webinar with slides which are omitted here. The works referred to are included below for your reference and insights.

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Link to website with handouts and images from African Rock Art Image Analysis curriculum

https://www.visibilityinstem.com/africanrockartimageanalysis/

Free download of article titled: "Emergent themes and pragmatic research methods for meaningful cultural representation of Blacks in multimedia products for the science classroom"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500693.2021.1959959

An Interdisciplinary Investigation of African Rock Art Images to Learn about Science & Culture: Blending Biology, Geology, History & Ethics

https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2019.81.1.40

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Video clips on African Rock Art Image Analysis can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/@visibilityinstem