Previous events
2025
June 16,2025: Registration now open for the 9th ENCOUNTER Conference in Denmark 9-11 October 2025
25. april, 2025: Christen Scheel and the Russian journey. Knowledge dinner at Gammel Estrup about the 1760s diplomacy and political crisis between Denmark and Russia.
March 26, 2025: Programme for Slots- og Herregårdsforum at Løvenholm.
2024
September 19-21, 2024: Nordic Castle and Manor Symposium 2024
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
