lanek-at-novenine.com:
I doubt also that the symposium has been hold in "Leuven, Belgium," maybe in Leuven-the-new (Louvain-la-Neuve)? ... the two being different [30-40 minutes by train if I recall correctly], in which Louvain-la-Neuve is a VERY good[and politically emancipated too], high level university centre.
I mostly agree to the rest of your comment, but as you can easily check on their website it was in fact in Leuven:
"Leuven is about 25 km east of Brussels. Do not confuse Leuven with Louvain-La-Neuve, where the francophone university UCL is situated. Louvain-la-Neuve is about 30km away from Leuven!"
(from http://petsymposium.org/2008/travel.php)