Dale Dannefer delivered an invited symposium lecture entitled “Opening the Social: Sociological Imagination in Life Course Studies” (co-authored with Jessica Kelley-Moore and Wenxuan “Cherry” Huang) at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) in Dublin, Ireland on Tuesday October 20, 2015. The presentation was based on a forthcoming chapter in the Volume II of the Handbook of the Life Course.