was invited plenary speaker at a conference at the University of Salerno, in its main campus at Fisciano, focusing on the work and ideas of Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967) in his birth centenary year.
The conference was convened by Prof. Emiliana Mangone, Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Universit脿 degli Studi di Salerno.
Prof. Mayo spoke on Lorenzo Milani's relevance to contemporary society, in between presentations by Don Luigi Ciotti, from the organisation, Libera, and former Barbiana student and co-author of Lettera a una Professoressa, Edoardo Martinelli. One other presenter in the opening first day panel was Prof. Paolo Vittoria, a co-author of two books and several papers with Prof.Mayo, who provided a comparative analysis of Don Milani's ideas and those of Paulo Freire. One other foreign speaker at the conference was Prof. Emilio Lucio Villegas from the University of Seville who spoke in Spanish on Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire and Raymond Williams. Prof. Villegas was also external Examiner for a PhD thesis in the , University of Malta, in the past.
While at Salerno and in his capacity as coordinator of the UM programmes in Museum Education, Prof. Mayo paid a study visit to the temples and ruins at nearby Paestum and the Paestum Museum.
This was Prof. Mayo's second participation at a conference at the University of Salerno. In October 2015, he spoke on Political and Sociological approaches to Representational Arts, a paper he co-authored with , at a conference on Mediterranean Knowledge. He has subsequently published pieces in the University of Salerno's Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge and Culture e Studi del Sociale.
On 7, 8 and 9 December 2023, Prof. Mayo will be convening, as part of his responsibilities regarding the UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education, the University of Malta's fourth Birth Centenary Web Fest, this time appropriately dedicated to Don Lorenzo Milani.
