About

Margaréta holds a BA with a major in Psychology, and minors in Art History and Diversity and the Contemporary World from Concordia University (Montréal, Canada) as well as an MA in Sustainable Heritage Management from Aarhus University (Denmark) where she wrote a masters thesis titled “Microbial Heritage and Interspecies Relationships of Care: Small-Scale Sourdough Breadmaking During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The writing of her MA thesis formally kickstarted her interest in post-human relationships of care, exploring the diverse an unexpected ways in which care manifests itself in cultural settings and thinking about the real-life application that these relationships have to offer in a world dealing with a multifaceted sustainability crisis.

Common themes that often appear in Margaréta’s work are liminality, absence and care. She frequently approaches research from a conceptual point of view with an emphasis on phenomenology. Though her work is often interested in heritage inevitably informed by the past, it takes a decisively future-oriented perspective, with much of her work grazing the realm of post-humanism.

Previously, Margaréta has worked as a project manager at the organisation responsible for planning and implementing the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture, where she was involved in developing their ovderarching principles of sustainability for their subsequent events. She has also been a creative researcher at Hum Studio Interactive based in Stockholm, on a large-scale project focused on ocean conflicts (NOCRISES), where she was the co-developer and producer of an adaptable methodology based in local artistic knowledge as a way to creatively understand the complex nature of the conflicts at hand in the collaborating communities.

With a childhood split between central Canada and western Hungary, Margaréta is currently based in Copenhagen where she is a PhD fellow at KU’s Saxo Institute with her work associated with both the UCPH School of Archaeology and the Centre for Sustainable Futures, which is reflective of the diverse temporal focus of heritage studies. Her doctoral research focuses on the changing heritagescapes of the island of North Ronaldsay (Orkney, Scotland), with special focus on the who/what/where/when/why of the interspecies care relations that emerge on a temporal scale due to these heritage interactions.

When not working on her various creative projects and PhD, you can most likely find Margaréta in the forest hiking or foraging, on a winter beach jumping into ice-cold water, experimenting in her collective’s kitchen, or cozied up with a soup-bowl sized cup of tea while working on a knitting project.

Get in touch

Margaréta is always open to new collaborations within scientific, academic, creative and activist circles. If you would like to reach out please send an email to margareta.pinter3@gmail.com or map@hum.ku.dk

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Writings

Pinter, Margaréta. “Weaving Knowledge: Navigating intercultural dialogues about generative knowledge-exchange in the marine sciences.” Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin. 2024.

Varnajot, A., Pintér, M., Herva, V-P., Pashkevich, A. and Hermann, T. “Exploring the intersections between dark tourism and Arctic traumascapes in the Anthropocene: Case Finnish Lapland.” In Dark tourism: Critical epistemologies on death and disaster, eds. Nitasha Sharma, Annaclaudia Martini and Dallen J. Timothy. In press.

Pinter, M. “Reappropriation of the Holy City and Virtual Pilgrimages to Jerusalem Displayed by Modern and Crusader Maps.” Jerusalem Art History Journal. 2017.