I even tried the following
$related = new WP_Query( array(
'relationship' => array(
'relation' => 'OR',
array(
'id' => 'conf2pub',
'to' => get_the_ID(),
),
array(
'id' => 'post2pub',
'to' => get_the_ID(),
),
array(
'id' => 'pub_and_press',
'from' => get_the_ID(),
),
),
'nopaging' => true,
));
while ( $related->have_posts() ) : $related->the_post();
the_title();
endwhile;
wp_reset_postdata();