Webconference 2025

Global Voices in Literature 2025 - Stories Without Borders

Join us for the IATEFL Literature Special Interest Group (LitSIG) webconference, “Global Voices in Literature 2025,” taking place on September 12, 2025. This year's theme, “Stories Without Borders,” invites participants to explore literature as a powerful force that connects people across cultures, time, and technology.

This conference will be hosted entirely online, allowing participants from around the globe to join and contribute.

Event details

📖 Event type: SIG Event Literature

🗓️ Date: 12/09/2025 - 9:00 AM 6:00 PM (UK time)

🏫Venue: Online event

💲Fees:

£5
Free for IATEFL members

Register here

Call for Proposals

✨ Share your voice. Connect through stories. Shape the future of literature.

We are excited to announce that the Call for Proposals is now open! We encourage scholars, writers, educators, and students to submit their proposals for presentations. This is an opportunity to share your insights and research on how literature transcends boundaries and fosters global understanding.

Submission Details

Deadline for Submissions: August 29, 2025
Submit Your Proposal: https://forms.gle/g3tPD3e4hrLnQYQo9
Inquiries: Feel free to email us with any questions at litsig@iatefl.org

We look forward to receiving your proposals and engaging in enlightening discussions at this global event!

Submit your proposal!

Meet our plenary speakers!

Claudia Ferradas

PhD in English Studies (University of Nottingham). Presenter, teacher educator and materials writer based in Argentina, with extensive international experience. Affiliate trainer at the Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE), UK. Lecturer in the Master’s Programme in Contemporary Literatures in English at the National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.

David Heathfield

World storyteller and freelance teacher trainer and coach from Exeter, UK. He is the author of the Teacher Development book Storytelling With Our Students: Techniques for telling tales from around the world (DELTA Publishing 2014) as well as a host of articles and chapters on storytelling and drama in education. Tell a Child in Gaza's Tale is the current global voluntary project which he is co-running. David loves celebrating cultural diversity. https://davidheathfieldblog.wordpress.com/

Christian Ludwig

Visiting professor at Freie Universität Berlin, where he conducts research and teaches in the fields of literary learning, positive foreign language psychology, and digital media. His work is particularly concerned with exploring how these three areas can be productively interlinked, with a focus on enhancing students’ engagement and well-being.

Tyson Seburn

MA EdTech & TESOL, University of Manchester. Lecturer in and assistant director of International Programs at the University of Toronto and tutor on Oxford TEFL Barcelona’s Trinity DipTESOL course. He has volunteered on local and international teacher association committees, most recently as IATEFL TDSIG Coordinator. His personal and professional experiences inspired his interest in Queer and racialised ELT experiences, and thus ways to better practices and materials. He discusses critical and inclusive pedagogies via his online spaces (@seburnt). He is author of Academic Reading Circles (2015) and How to Write Inclusive Materials (2021).