Matthias Schepp, Moscow bureau chief for Der Spiegel and Knight-Wallace Fellow alumnus will deliver the 27th Graham Hovey Lecture. Der Spiegel has published more than a dozen of Schepp's investigative reports on corruption between Russia and Germany, including government-owned companies. He has reported on and interviewed Russian politicians, business and cultural leaders as well as conducting the last comprehensive interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn before his death. He is the author of two books.

Free and open to the public, the lecture highlights the benefits of sabbatical study at University of Michigan and honors the late Graham Hovey, director of the fellowship program from 1980-1986. A reception hosted by Lisa Rudgers, UM Vice President for Global Communications and Strategic Initiatives, will follow.