 Habermas was awarded The Prince of Asturias Award in Social Sciences of 2003.Habermas was also the 2004 Kyoto Laureate in the Arts and Philosophy section.He traveled to San Diego and on 5 March 2005, as part of the University of San Diego's Kyoto Symposium, gave a speech entitled "The Public Role of Religion in Secular Context", regarding the evolution of separation of church and state from neutrality to intense secularism.