Michael Chabon, author of this year's Nebula Award-winning novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union (which is currently a nominee for the Hugo, too), will be speaking at the University of Kansas's Hall Center for the Humanities on "Conquering the Wilderness: Imaginative Imperialism and the Invasion of Legoland" on Monday 27 October at 7:30PM. The lecture is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Sosland Foundation of Kansas City.