​On March 5, 2019, Jorge Sánchez Cruz gave a talk entitled Politics of Illegibility: Aesthetics, Sexual Dissidence, and Mexico for faculty and students at Northwestern University. His presentation analyzed two particular historical junctures in Mexican culture, the 1990s and the last decade of the 21st century. Paying attention to aesthetic productions as symptoms of a national crisis, his talk reflected on political possibilities that emerged from subcultural fields and disempowered subjectivities.

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Between January 13-17, 2020, Jorge Sanchez Cruz participated in the culminating event in the CTGS project's 'After Foucault: Gender and Biopolitics in the Americas' subproject. Professors Daniel Link and Mariana López Seone of Universidad Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) in Buenos Aires, Argentina visited Northwestern University for a series of collaborative meetings with faculty and students, organized as one of the concluding events of the 'After Foucault' subproject.  This week-long series of events focused upon the subject of 'Critical Concepts on Latin American Queer/Cuir Theory and Literature' and also featured contributions from renowned Latin American author Mario Bellatin.  Full details of the events can be found here.