Former events

Previous events

April 26, 2024: If walls could talk. Knowledge dinner at Gammel Estrup about the noble family Scheel and the manors of the absolute monarchy seen through the tapestries of the knights' hall

March 21, 2024: Slots- og herregårdsforum's spring meeting 2024

2023

September 9, 2023: With the Danish Research Centre for Manorial Studies and FOF Aarhus on a manor trip

April 21, 2023: Jørgen Scheel's great journey. Knowledge dinner about the nobility's travels, food and art at Gammel Estrup

March 21, 2023: Slots- og Herregårdsforum's spring meeting on the Manors' collections and the impact of collecting culture in the manor environment at Odense Adelige Jomfrukloster.

2022

April 28, 2022: Food and people downstairs. Knowledge dinner at Gammel Estrup about the manor's servants on the occasion of the Danish Science Day.

2021

August 26, 2021: Webinar: Servants at the Manor in Early Modern Times

October 28, 2021: Online seminar: Servants in the eighteenth-century European Country House

April 23-29, 2021: On a digital tour of the Danish manor landscape. The Danish Science Festival 2021.

April 13, 2021: Online seminar on art and manors: Culture, class and contacts – Art and manors 1830-1890.

2020

July 8, 2020: Bike ride in Auning. From brickyard to manor house.

March 15, 2020: Manor tour at Tirsbæk. CANCELLED.

April 21, 2020: Knowledge dinner on the occasion of the Danish Science Festival: Dinner at the Count's. Historical dining and stories about 18th-century manor life. CANCELLED.

2019

August 15-17, 2019: Nordic Castle and Manor Symposium in Denmark 2019

May 18, 2019: Excursion to Sorø Akademi and Herlufsholm

May 1, 2019: Men's Feast – Historical dining on the occasion of the Danish Research Festival on April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019: Men's Feast – Historical dining and appetizing stories about nobility and drinking culture in the Renaissance

April 11, 2019: PhD Defence Rasmus Skovgaard Jakobsen

2018

September 18 and 20, 2018: The Danish Research Centre for Manorial Studies goes live

September 9, 2018: Manor excursion to Katholm on Djursland

May 15, 2018: Bus trip – Manors in Himmerland

April 26, 2018: A Royal Banquet - The Danish Science Festival at Gammel Estrup 2018

2017

September 9, 2017: Bus tour – The architectural gems of the manor houses in East Jutland

September 21-23, 2017: The international conference “A Manorial World” at Gammel Estrup. OPEN FOR REGISTRATION!

August 12, 2017: Bus trip – Marshal of the Realm Jørgen Skeel's manors

August 26, 2017: Bus trip – The lord's churches

August 29 - September 1, 2017: Bus trip – Prussian royal castles – CANCELLED.

May 2, 2017: Guest lecture by manor researcher Dr. Jonathan Finch at Moesgaard

April 27, 2017: 183 glorious manor stories. The Danish Science Festival at The Danish Research Centre for Manorial Studies

2016

August 15-17, 2016: Nordic Castle and Manor Symposium in Finland: New times in the old past – innovations, urbanization and societal turning points.

September 4, 2016: Bus trip – Four manors through seven centuries. In Central Jutland between Silkeborg and Viborg you will find a rare diversity of different manors with a history that spans seven centuries.

October 9-12, 2016: Bus tour – From Central Jutland to Europe. Northern German castles, parks and manors – the European connection.

April 30, 2016: The Danish Science Festival: Build your own manor!

March 19, 2016: Bus trip – The Lord's Churches. Visit the Gammel Estrup manor and the churches in Auning, Fausing and Øster Alling and hear about the close connections between the manor and the church in the past.

2015

Ocotber 6-7, 2015: International conference on the manor's physical and cultural landscape: “European encounters. Estates and landscapes”. Gammel Estrup.

September 9-10, 2015: Conference on Absolute Monarchy in the Nordic Region: “A Royal Journey – Buildings and People in the Center of Power” in Copenhagen

April 25, 2015: The Danish Science Festival. Art and science. Open study and experimentarium at the manor house

February 21, 2015: Manor trip. Join us on a modern educational journey and see three beautiful manors on Djursland.

January 31, 2015: Open house event “The Journey of Education”. Hear author Carsten Jensen and language professor Jørn Lund’s reflections on education today and join special tours (Aarhus 2017 event)

2014

September 18-21, 2014: Estates, manors and lordships in the 17th-century Nordic countries – Nordic Castle and Manor Symposium

April 24, 2014: The Danish manor on the map – The Danish Science Festival

2013

August 30, 2013: The seminar “How many bricks can you remove before the ghost of the manor moves” on the preservation of architectural heritage values in manor building (read a summary of the seminar here)

April 2, 2013: “Salon Evening at Gammel Estrup” – The Danish Science Festival 2013

May 20, 2013: Dorte Kook Lyngholm, postdoc at The Danish Research Centre For Manorial Studies in "Alle tiders historie" on the radio P1