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== Award ceremonies and related events ==
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Except for the Peace Prize, the Nobel Prizes are presented in Stockholm, Sweden, at the annual Prize Award Ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death. The recipients' lectures are normally held in the days prior to the award ceremony. The Peace Prize and its recipients' lectures are presented at the annual Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo, Norway, usually on 10 December. The award ceremonies and the associated banquets are typically major international events.<ref name="autogenerated5">{{Cite web |date=10 December 2009 |title=2009 Nobel Prize award ceremony live online &#124; IT &#124; ICM Commercial & Business News |url=http://news.icm.ac.uk/technology/2009-nobel-prize-award-ceremony-live-online/4893/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209005839/http://news.icm.ac.uk/technology/2009-nobel-prize-award-ceremony-live-online/4893/ |archive-date=9 February 2010 |access-date=16 January 2010 |publisher=[[Institute of Commercial Management]]}}</ref><ref name="thelocal2">{{Cite web |date=10 December 2009 |title=Pomp aplenty as winners gather for Nobel gala |url=http://www.thelocal.se/23784/20091210/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215055502/http://www.thelocal.se/23784/20091210/ |archive-date=15 December 2009 |access-date=16 January 2010 |website=[[The Local]]}}</ref> The Prizes awarded in Sweden's ceremonies are held at the [[Stockholm Concert Hall]], with the Nobel banquet following immediately at [[Stockholm City Hall]]. The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony has been held at the [[Norwegian Nobel Institute]] (1905–1946), at the [[auditorium]] of the [[University of Oslo]] (1947–1989), and at [[Oslo City Hall]] (1990–present).<ref name="Levinovitz21-23">[[Nobel Prize#Levinovitz69|Levinovitz]], pp. 21–23.</ref>

The highlight of the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm occurs when each Nobel laureate steps forward to receive the prize from the hands of the [[Monarchy of Sweden|King of Sweden]]. In Oslo, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee presents the Nobel Peace Prize in the presence of the [[Monarchy of Norway|King of Norway]] and the [[Norwegian royal family]].<ref name="thelocal2" /><ref name="sweden2">{{Cite web |last=Froman |first=Ingmarie |date=4 December 2007 |title=The Nobel Week — a celebration of science |url=http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Education/Research/Reading/The-Nobel-Week--a-celebration-of-science/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091014205607/http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Education/Research/Reading/The-Nobel-Week--a-celebration-of-science/ |archive-date=14 October 2009 |access-date=16 January 2010 |publisher=[[Swedish Institute]] }}</ref> At first, King [[Oscar II of Sweden|Oscar II]] did not approve of awarding grand prizes to foreigners.<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 December 2009 |title=Alfred Nobel's last will and testament |url=http://www.thelocal.se/14776/20091005/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009110708/http://www.thelocal.se/14776/20091005/ |archive-date=9 October 2009 |access-date=16 January 2010 |website=[[The Local]]}}</ref>

=== Nobel Banquet ===
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[[File:Nobel-banquet-table.jpg|thumb|alt=A set table with a white table cloth. There are many plates and glasses plus a menu visible on the table.|Table at the 2005 [[Nobel Banquet]] in Stockholm]]
After the award ceremony in Sweden, a banquet is held in the [[Blue Hall]] at the [[Stockholm City Hall]], which is attended by the [[Swedish Royal Family]] and around 1,300 guests. The [[Nobel Peace Prize]] banquet is held in Norway at the [[Grand Hotel (Oslo)|Oslo Grand Hotel]] after the award ceremony. Apart from the laureate, guests include the president of the [[Storting]], on occasion the Swedish prime minister, and, since 2006, the King and Queen of Norway. In total, about 250 guests attend.

=== Nobel lecture ===
According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, each laureate is required to give a public lecture on a subject related to the topic of their prize.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Foundation – Statutes |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundation/statutes.html#par9 |website=The Nobel Foundation |access-date=5 June 2017 |archive-date=24 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724075738/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundation/statutes.html#par9 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Nobel lecture as a rhetorical genre took decades to reach its current format.<ref>[[Philippe-Joseph Salazar]], "Nobel Rhetoric, Or Petrarch's Pendulum", in the journal Rhetoric and Philosophy 42(4), pp. 373–400, 2009, {{ISSN|0031-8213}}.</ref> These lectures normally occur during Nobel Week (the week leading up to the award ceremony and banquet, which begins with the laureates arriving in Stockholm and normally ends with the Nobel banquet), but this is not mandatory. The laureate is only obliged to give the lecture within six months of receiving the prize, but some have happened even later. For example, US President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] received the Peace Prize in 1906 but gave his lecture in 1910, after his term in office.<ref name="Abrams18-19">[[Nobel Prize#Abrams|Abrams]], pp. 18–19.</ref> The lectures are organised by the same association which selected the laureates.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lea |first=Richard |date=8 December 2008 |title=Le Clézio uses Nobel lecture to attack information poverty |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/08/jmg-clezio-nobel-lecture |access-date=20 January 2010 |archive-date=10 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110224404/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/08/jmg-clezio-nobel-lecture |url-status=live }}</ref>

<blockquote>Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
:— [[Yitzhak Rabin]], 1994 Nobel Peace Prize lecture<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/rabin-lecture.html 1994 Nobel Peace Prize lecture] (10 December 1994).</ref></blockquote>

=== Nobel Minds ===
From 1959 to 1990, Swedish journalist [[Bengt Feldreich]] gathered the science prize laureates to a discussion, broadcast as ''Snillen spekulerar'' (in English ''Science and Man'') first in radio, and then from the mid-1960s in [[Sveriges Television]]. Since 2004, the program is a coproduction with [[BBC World News]] under the title ''Nobel Minds'', since 2011 hosted by [[Zeinab Badawi]].<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel-minds/ Nobel Minds], Nobel Prize website.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001tnx0/nobel-minds Nobel Minds], BBC website.</ref>