CALL FOR PAPERS

COLLOQUIUM TO COMMEMORATE SEYCHELLES’ 40^TH FESTIVAL KREOL – 22^nd to 23^rd  OCTOBER 2025

The Seychelles National Institute for Culture, Heritage and the Arts, and the University of Seychelles invite scholars and cultural activists of the Indian Ocean Creole zone to submit abstracts for a contribution in a colloquium celebrating 40 years of the Seychelles Creole Festival. The colloquium will focus on the role played by the Seychelles ‘Festival Kreol’ itself, and other fêtes and festivals in the Indian Ocean region, in the process of identity making and heritage conservation. This general theme will be explored through four sub-themes representing the strong points of the Seychelles ‘Festival Kreol’ throughout its 40 years of existence. The first sub-theme is ‘Traditional Games, as an element of the cultural practices inherited in the whole Indian Ocean region, through the propagation of slavery and the creolization process.’ The discussion of this sub-theme will be led by the Seychelles National Sports Council. The second sub-theme is ‘Creole music, from its origins to its evolution’, and will be led by the Seychelles National Institute for Culture, Heritage and the Arts. The third sub-theme is ‘Creole food and identity’, and the fourth is ‘Creole Literature and Creole Language Development’.  Both will be led by the Creole Language and Culture Research Institute, University of Seychelles.

The Call for Papers are also available in Creole and French