On the 5th of May 2018 Jonas Bens presented a paper co-authored by Olaf Zenker at the third international conference of the Collaborative Research Center "Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Cohesion in Mobile Worlds." The conference took place at the Freie Universität Berlin under the title "Public Emotions: Affective Collectivity in Audiences."

The paper was entitled "Affective Transference and the Problem of Multiple Publics: Who is the Audience of Transitional Justice?" and considered the problem of affective multi-addressing in proceedings of the International Criminal Court and the court's outreach-events in Northern Uganda.