Sociable Social Sciences (Družabno družboslovje) is a project, which establishes the actual content in a very deficit urban field: in the field of creation of intellectual culture, one which is based on different humanistic-social scientific insights, establishes a specific self reflexive humanistic-social scientific reflexion and self-positioning of the town and this part of Slovenia in synchronous national and transnational intellectual currents. This is a traditional cycle of lectures and discussion evenings, prepared by Dr. Vesna V. Godina and Dr. Andrej Fištravec in cooperation with our institute. Each year a spring and autumn cycle is held in Club KGB in Maribor. We prepare discussions on actual social issues with eminent guests. The cycle is designed primarily for students, yet other intellectuals are glad to attend to it too.
Considering the orientation of the ECOC 2012 in four groups, the project of Sociable Social Studies (Družabno družboslovje) is primarily placed among the tendered programme group Urban Furrows (Urbane brazde) and Town Keys (Ključi mesta), and secondarily (in case ECOC 2012 joins the coproduction of the film on creative potential of Maribor, head producer is Studio Alp) Sociable Social Studies also engages with the program orientation Lifetouch (Življenje na dotik).
Among the guests in 2009 were Gregor Golubič, dr. Rudi Klanjšek, Emanuel Čerček, dr. Uroš Lobnik, Stojan Skalicki, mag. Franci Pivec, dr. Milan Brglez, dr. Pavle Gantar, prof. dr. Lučka Bogataj, Vlado Kreslin, Spomenka Hribar, Rastko Močnik, Bojan Radej, Miroslav Stanojevič, Matjaž Mulej and Dušan Semulič.
The guests in 2010 were Branimir Štrukelj, dr. Rudi Rizman, Matjaž Hanžek, dr. Valerija Korošec, Branko Gerlič, dr. Anton Kramberger, Grega Repovž and mag. Marcel Stefančič, Jr.
More details of the guests and the topics in this year’s autumn cycle can be found at http://druzabnodruzboslovje.org/.