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WHEN THE DOCUMENTARIES CAME TO TOWN
On May 1st, Leuven saw the beginning of its 6th annual International Documentary Film Festival. The festival, which ran for a week, showcased numerous documentaries from around the world as well as ones from Belgium. This year, new categories were added, and a rise in ticket sales confirmed the growing popularity of the festival.
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IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN
Nobel Laureate At Launch Leuven Center for Irish Studies
“For works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past” was the citation used when the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Seamus Heaney in 1995. Students and staff at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven had the pleasure of listening to a lecture by the Irish poet on 22 March.
Cemetery State: Managing Death in the Congo
Over the past several years Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has experienced a monumental shift in social structure. A center of warfare and death that has been raging throughout the Congo, Kinshasa is now at the heart of a change in the understanding of reality in the Congo.
From brown Buffalos to partying Tigers!
Tet, Vietnamese New Year took place February 14th, on Valentines day. In Leuven each year, the association of Vietnamese students, Vinakul, organises the greatest Vietnamese Newyear party in Belgium. LOKO international was there to taste the colourful food, have a nice chat and be amused by games that went beyong imagination.
