Mapping Denmark and the Americas
The Danish Royal Library, Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, and the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon invite you to a program examining historic map collections across the Atlantic. This 1 ½ day symposium, held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, will feature historians, geographers, and technologists working in digital map collections.
This program is part of the American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) project.
Thursday, December 5 - Scandinavia and the American Revolutionary Era
13:30 - Coffee
14:00 - Roundtable on ARGO: Mapping Scandinavia and the Americas in a revolutionary age. Stig Svenningsen (Det Kgl. Bibliotek), Garrett Dash Nelson (Leventhal Center), Alexandra Montgomery (Washington Library)
15:00: Keynote Lecture, "Geopolitics with and without Geography," Andrew Rhodes (US Embassy, Copenhagen)
17:00: Reception (With remarks by Søren Bitsch Christensen, Vice Director for Cultural Heritage, Det Kgl. Bibliotek; and Alan Leventhal, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark)
Friday, December 6 - Mapping Across the Atlantic
9:00: Coffee
10:00: Roundtable on Denmark in North America. Henrik Dupont, Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer
12:00: Lunch break
13:00–14:30: Panel on digital map collections, digitization, and historical GIS. Christina Vibeke Holck-Clausen & Stine Dau (Danish Climate Data Agency), Peder Dam (Odense Museum), Bert Spaan (Allmaps Project)
15:00 - Collections showing with highlights from the Royal Library map collections