The symposium will be organized in different sessions, devoted to the following topics:
- Past mass extinctions
- Terrestrial hazards: Earth magnetic field
- Planetary hazards: asteroid and comet impacts, rogue planets
- Solar hazards: solar activity, Sun evolution
- Galactic hazards: nearby stars, heliosphere, the Local Bubble, galactic cosmic rays, supernovae, GRBs, black holes
- Extragalactic hazards: collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda, Virgo superclusters
- Universal hazards: the fate of the Universe
- Comparative analysis of the astronomical hazards
- The End of Life in past and present cultures: native cultures, western and eastern cultures
- The End of Life from a philosophical and theological perspective: ultimate end and meaning of life
Two round tables for interdisciplinary discussions will be organized:
- How to respond to the astronomical hazards?
- The scientific, theological and philosophical perspective of the «end of life»