The conference “Mimesis and the Government of Difference. New Perspectives on the Portuguese Colonial Empire” will take place on 31 May-1 June, at Birbeck College, University of London. The conference is co-organized by the research projects “Colonial Mimesis in Lusophone Asia and Africa” and “The Government of Difference. Political Imagination in the Portuguese Empire (1496-1961), and will bring together historians, law historians and anthropologists to discuss new researches about the portuguese colonial empire.