Kazuma Matoba

Kazuma Matoba is an associate professor at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and at the Transformation work area of the WittenLab. Zukunftslabor Studium fundamentale.

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)