On the 26th of July, Professor Sir Christopher Bayly, director of the South Asian Studies Centre (Cambridge University) will be at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) to present the lecture “Knowledge and the challenge to empires, c. 1790-1950”, in an activity organized by the project Colonial Mimesis in Lusophone Asia and Africa.
The lecture will take place at the Auditório Sedas Nunes, Institute of Social Sciences, between 17h-19h.
The workshop “Theorizing the Portuguese Colonial Experience. Images, History, Power” will take place on 16-17 June, at Companhia das Culturas in Castro Marim, Algarve. This closed workshop is designed as an informal brainstorming meeting in dialogue with the work of Professor Ann Laura Stoler, under the following common, general, issues: What are the mutual interferences, tensions, productivities, silences, ignorances, gaps, influences between the empirical and conceptual specificities of studying the Portuguese empire, and the wider international literature on the colonial and post-colonial? How, in short, does the study of the Portuguese colonial experience interfere with old and emerging theories of colonialism and post-colonialism? 
We have now added a new section, providing a bibliography of published works related with the concept of mimesis and its influence in history and theory. The list was compiled by the team members and we tried to provide a broad outlook, collecting works from different theoretic and historiographical traditions. Please note that this bibliography is still a work-in-progress and is in draft form. We hope to keep adding new and more diverse publications during the term of the project.