All topics concerned with scholarly approach to subject of disasters, catastrophes and the ends of the world in all its aspects and forms are welcomed, including papers of ancient as well as contemporary times. We invite scholars of various specialities, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists of culture, linguists, scholars studying religion and culture matters, historians of art, sociologists, psychologists, all willing to discuss the subject in its broad scholarly sense.

We would like to call your attention to multiplicity of the catastrophic happenings and their perception. The following are, however, examples only:

1. Global catastrophes
2. Local catastrophes
3. Ideologies leading to catastrophes
4. Time as catastrophe
5. The end of the world as the final catastrophe
6. Natural catastrophes, e.g.: earthquakes, eruptions of volcanoes, landslips, floods, fires and conflagrations, climatic catastrophes, epidemics, astronomical/cosmic catastrophes, famine, droughts; death as personal, national and/or international catastrophe
7. Catastrophes caused by people, e.g.: ecological, architectural, toxins, nuclear, war conflicts, economic, starvation, demographic; air, sea catastrophes (e.g. Titanic, Gustlof) and land, car catastrophes; politic – collapses of politic systems, ideologies
8. Catastrophes in Prehistory, e.g.: extinction of dinosaurs; Thera; downfalls of civilisations, e.g.: Minoan, Hittite Culture or Rome and other; epidemics, e.g. Justinian and 1346 year; invasions, e.g. Mongolian invasion in the 13th century; epidemics in the South America after incoming of the Spanish
9. Catastrophes today: Tungusic meteorite; Spanish epidemic in 1918;  French (1789) and Russian (1917) Revolutions; World War I and II; genocide;

10. Catastrophes in mythology: deluge in Mesopotamia and the Bible; epidemics in Egypt; myths on destruction of mankind; Armageddon; Ragnarök

11. Catastrophes in written Sources

12. Catastrophes in art: paintings; graphics, sculpture; architecture, literature; film; music etc

13. Aesthetic Catastrophes

14. Catastrophes in popular culture: aliens’ attack, meteorite/asteroid fall; new glacial epoch; damage of river dam; laboratory viruses; conflagration of skyscraper; nuclear annihilation; eruptions of volcanoes etc and many other.