The full descriptions can be found here – http://www.gothamcenter.org/forums/current.shtml 

Here’s the digest – all events start at 6:30:

Aspects of the African-American Experience in NYC
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Concourse Level, Rooms C201, 202 and 203

Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Elebash Recital Hall

More Powerful than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives and New York’s Year of Anarchy
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Martin E. Segal Theater

Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Elebash Recital Hall

L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Martin E. Segal Theater

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race around the World
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Elebash Recital Hall

New York City Cartmen, 1667–1850
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Elebash Recital Hall

This spring, the Gotham Center will require registration but no fee for ONLY TWO of its seven Forums. Those two Forums will take place on Thursday, February 28, 2013 and Wednesday, March 20, 2013.

ALL OTHER FORUMS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC with no reservations required. Admittance to the events will operate on a first-come, first-served basis. Books will be available for purchase and signing by the respective authors. For more information, call 212-817-8471 or click here.

Unless otherwise noted, all forums take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, located at 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street.