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.

​The full schedule will be available in mid November. Tentative program details below.

​Thursday, December 5

​12:00 - Welcome lunch
14:00 - Roundtable on ARGO: Mapping Scandinavia and the Americas in a revolutionary age. Stig Svenningsen, Garrett Dash Nelson, Alexandra Montgomery
15:30 - Collections showing with highlights from the Royal Library map collections
17:00 - Keynote lecture (TBA)

​Friday, December 6

​9:00: Coffee
10:00: Roundtable on Denmark in North America
12:00: Lunch break
13:30–17:00: Panel conversations: Map collections, digital partnerships, and public engagement