Kazuma Matoba

Research Area Transformation

Integration of collective trauma through social technology such as "Global Social Witnessing", "Transparent communication (embodied communication)", "Dialogue process" and "Intra-active action research".

April 1981 - March 1985
BA studies at the Faculty of Foreign Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo

April 1985 - September 1989
MA studies at the Faculty of Linguistics at Sophia University in Tokyo

October 1992 - December 1994
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) doctoral scholarship holder in the department of linguistics and literary studies at the Gerhard Mercator University GH Duisburg

April 1990 - July 1992
Academic staff member at the training centre for international students at Tôkai University in Hiratsuka/Japan

October 1994 - February 1995
Academic staff member at the East Asia Institute of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

January 1995 - 2005
Academic staff member at the Institute for Comparative Economic Research at Witten/Herdecke University

April 2006 - December 2009
Head of the "Diversity Management" research group in the Faculty of Economics at Witten/Herdecke University

July 2010 - March 2014
Academic with postdoctoral lecturing qualification in the Faculty of Cultural Reflection at Witten/Herdecke University

April 2014 - March 2017
Deputy Professor of Intercultural Education in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich

April 2018 - March 2022
Associate Professor of Intercultural Education in the Faculty of Cultural Reflection

Since April 2022 - today
Associate Professor in the "Transformation" Research Area in the WittenLab Studium fundamentale

• Global Social Witnessing - Theory and practices
• Trauma, identity, narrative and war
• Transforming historical trauma through dialogue
• New narratives for planetary education

• Collective historical trauma
• Intercultural education
• Quantum social science

Memberships:

• European Communication Research and Education Association
• Japanese Society for Spiritual Care
• Umbrella organisation Salutogenesis
• The Pocket Project e.V. (scientific advisory board)
   

Research Fellow:

The United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS)