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

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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