From September 28 to October 2, The Hoover Library & Archives are co-hosting, along with Stanford’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, a conference entitled “Poetry and Politics in the Twentieth Century: Boris Pasternak, His Family, and His Novel Doctor Zhivago.” The conference brings together leading academics in the fields of literature and history, as well as Boris Pasternak’s family members, several of whom have donated their family papers to the Hoover Archives. In conjunction with the conference, Hoover will mount a week-long exhibition of Pasternak materials in the rotunda of the Hoover Tower.