The physical and legal nature of icebergs

Director - Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde
Type of internship - Theoretical and field-questionnaires
Public - M2
Duration - Free
Dates - Free
The title of the internship speaks by itself. It requires a good command and serious interest in legal theory (particularly environmental and international maritime law). The point is to relate the extent legal of status with spontaneous cognition about their physical nature and to envision the cognitive and ontological basis of reshaping their legal (...)

Linguistic basis of legal originalism

Director - Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde
Public - M2
Duration - Free
Dates - Free
Based on Lawrence Solum’s originalist methodology the project will apply natural language processing methods in an effort to probe the hypothesis that the more a constitutional text originally contains markers of context-dependence (indexical, evaluative, relativisitic, etc.) the more it is prone to elicit an originalist reading across (...)

Quantifying Emotion and Cognition in History through Text-Mining, Face Processing and Cultural Modelling

Director - Nicolas Baumard
Public - L3/M1/M2
Duration - 2 months
Dates - Free
The goal of this internship is to quantify long term change in emotion and cogntion by analysing cultural artifacts such as fictions, portraits or musical works

INTERNSHIP OFFERS

The Institut Jean-Nicod regularly offers internships. Do not hesitate to directly contact the researchers if you have any questions :
Baumard Nicolas ǀ Quantifying Emotion and Cognition in History through Text-Mining, Face Processing and Cultural Modelling – L3/M1/M2 – 2 months
Bourgeois-Gironde Sacha ǀ Théorème de Hale-Jewett
Bourgeois-Gironde Sacha ǀ Linguistic basis of legal originalism – M2
Bourgeois-Gironde Sacha ǀ The physical and legal nature of icebergs – M2
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The color of the sea in maps

Director - Roberto Casati
Type of internship - Bibliography, theory
Public - M1/M2
Duration - Free
Dates - Anytime
“Today high standardized associative symbolism on mapping : blue for water, red for towns, green for trees, has come to characterize the representation of the most common map features.” (Ulla Erensvard, « Color in cartography : A historical Survey », in Art and Cartography : Six Historical Essays, edited by David Woodward, The University of Chicago Press, 1987).
This (...)

Should you trust this map?

Director - Roberto Casati
Type of intership - Blibiography, Corpus
Public - M1/M2
Duration - Free
Dates - Anytime
Should you trust this map ? This internship has the objective of constituting a corpus of historical sources documenting cases in which trusting a map resulted in disastrous consequences. Examples are accidents induced by map-based navigation, or errors in architectural planning due to a fallacious map. The upshot of this bibliographical research is to retrieve the (...)