Dinner and Evening Celebration 2025

Sociology Days Conference Dinner at Kåren

The Sociology Days Conference Dinner and Evening Party will take place on Thursday, March 20, at the historic Kåren Restaurant in the heart of Turku on Hämeenkatu. Join us for an evening of delicious food, excellent music, and great company.

Dinner Ticket & Registration

The dinner registration has closed.

Evening Program:

19:00 City Reception and Welcome Drinks (For registered guests only)
19:30-20:30 Dinner (For registered guests only)
20:30-22:30 Aninkaisten Sävel

21:00 Kåren opens for the evening party
22:30-00:30 Evening Party, DJ Duo Iidamummo & Jenni from the Block

Menu

Buffet

Salads

  • Green salad, house salad dressing
  • Greek salad
  • Caesar salad with prawns and croutons
  • Potato salad with truffle oil
  • Broiler pasta salad
  • Marinated vegetables (peppers, red onion, zucchini)

Bread & Sides

  • House bread and tzatziki

Main Courses

  • Roasted rainbow trout, herb hollandaise sauce, potatoes, and warm vegetable garnish
  • Vegetarian option (vegan): Seitan, trumpet chanterelle sauce, potatoes, and a warm vegetable side dish

Dessert

  • Vanilla panna cotta, pomegranate seeds, and syrup

Beverages

  • Coffee / Tea
Location & Accessibility

Kåren – Hämeenkatu 22, Turku
Less than 1 km from Turku Market Square and just over 1 km from the University of Turku. There is plenty of street parking near Kåren.

Performers
Aninkaisten Sävel is a large dance orchestra in the English style of the 1920s and 1930s. The brass and saxophone sections are not yet as extensive as in later big bands, but on the other hand, the sound spectrum also includes violin, clarinet, banjo and double bass. This instrumentation is agile and adaptable. The orchestra, founded in 2008, rehearses at Aninkaistenmäki in Turku.
The evening’s vocal soloists will be Sanna Vartiainen, Aleksi Kauppinen, Sami Levänen and the sociologists Mikko Lagerspetz and Sabina Hadžibulić. The program mainly includes music from the 1920s and 1930s, but to the delight of sociologists, Sanna will also perform the song Anomia, composed by M.A. Numminen to lyrics by Erik Allardt.

”Girl, Put Your Records On! – the Turku-based DJ duo Iidamummo and Jenni from the Block will bring their CD collection and play the hottest ’90s hits.”