The Princess of Asturias Foundation

The 2022 Princess of Asturias Laureates will begin to arrive in Asturias from Sunday 23rd onwards. The Awards Ceremony will be held at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo on Friday 28th October.

Juan Mayorga, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Literature, Carmen Linares and María Pagés, joint Princess of Asturias Laureates for the Arts, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Social Sciences, and Adam Michnik, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Communication and Humanities, will be the first to travel to the Principality.

Yann LeCun and Demis Hassabis, joint Princess of Asturias Laureates for Technical and Scientific Research along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, will also be attending the ceremony, while the latter two will not be able to travel to be present at the event due to medical recommendation.

The Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, conferred on the Olympic Refuge Foundation and the Refugee Olympic Team, will be collected by IOC President Thomas Bach, accompanied by two members of the Refugee Olympic Team, Afghan cyclist Masomah Ali (living as a refugee in France) and Venezuelan boxer Eldrid Sella (living as a refugee in Uruguay).

Besides featuring in different cultural events throughout the week, this year’s Laureates will hold several meetings with the press, as detailed below.

INFORMATION OF INTEREST:

Schedule subject to change. Updated information at: www.fpa.es/en.
Arrival times at the Reconquista Hotel are approximate.
All press conferences will be held in the Reconquista Hotel’s screening room (“Salón de Proyecciones”), the entrance to which is in Calle Arquitecto Reguera.
Graphic material on the arrival of the Laureates will be available in the Online Press Room (OPR) on the Foundation’s website: www.fpa.es/en.
The biographies of Masomah Ali Zada and Eldric Sella are available in the Online Press Room (OPR).

ARRIVAL OF THE LAUREATES

SUNDAY 23rd OCTOBER

Juan Mayorga, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Literature, will arrive in Oviedo will arrive around 8:20pm.

MONDAY 24th OCTOBER

María Pagés, joint Princess of Asturias Laureate for the Arts, will arrive at the Reconquista Hotel about 2:30pm.
Carmen Linares joint Princess of Asturias Laureate for the Arts, will be officially received around 3:00pm.
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Social Sciences, will arrive at around 5:35pm.
Adam Michnik, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Communication and Humanities, will arrive at the Reconquista Hotel during the evening.

TUESDAY 25th OCTOBER

Demis Hassabis, joint Princess of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research, will arrive around 5:00pm.
Yann LeCun, joint Princess of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research, will arrive around 7:50pm.

WEDNESDAY 26th OCTOBER

Ellen MacArthur, Princess of Asturias Laureate for International Cooperation, is scheduled to arrive at 3:40pm.

THURSDAY 27th OCTOBER

Shigeru Ban, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Concord, will arrive at the Reconquista Hotel during the afternoon.
Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, representing the Olympic Refuge Foundation and the Refugee Olympic Team, Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, will arrive at the Reconquista Hotel at 5:35pm.

PRESS CONFERENCES TO BE GIVEN BY THE LAUREATES

MONDAY 24th OCTOBER

4:00pm. Juan Mayorga, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Literature.
5:00pm. Carmen Linares and María Pagés, joint Princess of Asturias Laureates for the Arts.

TUESDAY 25th OCTOBER

10:30am. Adam Michnik, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Communication and Humanities.
4:00pm. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Social Sciences.
6:00pm. Demis Hassabis, joint Princess of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research.

WEDNESDAY 26th OCTOBER

11:00am. Yann LeCun, joint Princess of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research.
5:00pm. Ellen MacArthur, Princess of Asturias Laureate for International Cooperation.

THURSDAY 27th OCTOBER

5:30pm. Shigeru Ban, Princess of Asturias Laureate for Concord.
6:00pm. The Olympic Refuge Foundation and the Refugee Olympic Team, Princess of Asturias Award for Sports. Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee.

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