Name: Mapping Denmark and the Americas
Start: 2024-12-05T13:30:00.000+01:00
End: 2024-12-06T17:00:00.000+01:00
Location: Det Kgl. Bibliotek, The Royal Library

We use maps, geography, and history to understand the connection between people and places in Boston, New England, and beyond.

Leventhal Map & Education Center

Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

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.

American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO)

Thursday, December 5 - Scandinavia and the American Revolutionary Era

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," 

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

10:00: Roundtable on Denmark in North America. 

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