New Edition Personnel Magazine UGent’ers Now Available!

The second edition of UGent'ers will arrive in your mailbox this week. Sneak-preview: Claudia and Wuxia compare Ghent to their hometown, Napels and Guizhou. It doesn't matter how much we love our city and alma mater, there's no chance of ever catching a sultry Mediterranean sea breeze in the hallways here. Yet, still, Claudia Crocco left her beloved Naples behind some 14 years ago to pursue a career at Ghent University. Wuxia Bao also traveled 8.597 kilometers to do her doctoral studies in Ghent. What are the differences that stand out the most for them? - Claudia Crocco, professor of Italian Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy) 5 things that I miss or find different: - I miss the chaos of Naples and the Mediterranean Sea, that feeling of ever-present beauty and history. I miss the feeling of going all-out in my own language, its humor, cultural references and dialect.